You're Not Crazy: A Podcast for Cycle Breakers with Toxic Parents · Torie Wiksell
Why You Intellectualize Your Feelings (and Why It’s So Hard to Stop)
March 24, 2026·16 min·1 clip
Torie reveals how growing up with narcissistic parents forces children to disconnect from their own feelings to survive.
As heard by us
A calm case for why overthinking can be a learned survival skill, not a character flaw.
The episode argues that intellectualizing feelings can become a survival skill, especially for cycle breakers who learned early that analysis felt safer than emotion.
Why you'd press play
If your feelings turn into a spreadsheet, this one goes straight at that reflex.
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