Getting Stuck in the Negatives and How to Get Unstuck

Alison Ledgerwood explores why our minds can so easily get pulled into negative thinking loops, even when we know it isn’t serving us. Alison, a psychologist who studies mindset and emotional patterns, explains that negativity bias is a built-in feature of how our brains evolved.

We pay more attention to threats and problems because they helped our ancestors survive. But in modern life, this survival wiring can keep us trapped in cycles of rumination, worry, self-criticism, and pessimism long after the danger has passed. Alison breaks down how this bias shows up in day-to-day thinking and why simply trying harder to “think positive” isn’t enough to shift these deeply rooted neural habits.