I know this shit is weird. It’s called a pattern interrupt. A pattern interrupt is when you do something unexpected to snap your brain and body out of a loop. Your nervous system loves patterns—good or bad. So when you’re stuck in panic, freeze, overthinking, or spiraling, your brain’s just running an old program on repeat. A pattern interrupt is like throwing a wrench in that loop. It forces your brain to pause long enough to realize, “Oh, we’re not actually dying, we’re just stuck in a stress