I caught the spiral earlier than I used to

Dear Delyara, I felt a spiral starting today and noticed it before it fully took over. That is one of the least dramatic and most meaningful forms of progress in my life right now. There was a time when I didn’t notice a spiral until I was already inside it, already treating my fear as fact, already handing the day over to overthinking. Today I felt the beginning of it and paused. I still had to manage the feeling. But I was not swallowed whole by it. There is a lot of freedom in earlier noticing.