Thinking Your Way Out

Overthinking can look like competence: cup after cup of analysis keeping the boat afloat while the leak goes untouched. Using the image of a bailer on a grey sea, Michael gently turns attention from the looping story towards the shame, disappointment, tiredness or ache beneath it. The aim is not to stop thinking or fix the feeling, but to set the cup down long enough to notice where the water comes in.