Breaking the rumination cycle to finally reclaim your sanity. Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Obie Fernandez on Unsplash Your phone vibrates on the kitchen counter. It is an email from your boss. “Hey, need to see you in my office on Thursday at 9 AM.” No context. No subject line. Just a digital guillotine hovering over your week. Your stomach instantly drops into your shoes. A cold sweat prickles the back of your neck. You wonder what you did wrong. You wonder if you messed up that client report or if somebody complained about you. You convince yourself you are getting fired right before the holidays. For the next two days, you are a ghost. You physically inhabit your home, but mentally, you are living in a disaster scenario. You lay awake staring at the ceiling fan, rehashing every conversation you have had at work for the last month. You ask your spouse for reassurance so many times they start hiding in the bathroom. Thursday morning arrives.…