Have you ever been caught in a mind spiral? It could be a spiral of memories, angry rumination, anxiety, or regret. Often, we get caught up in spaces like this when we haven't been able to fully process something. Maybe we didn't get to say what we needed to say. Maybe we wish we could go back and change something. Maybe we don't feel a right to feel what we feel.

These experiences can get trapped on their way to being processed, like an arrow that hits a wall and circles back on itself over and over. It is an awful merry-go-round. Research has shown that rumination can be a mediator between depression and anxiety symptoms, particularly in young people (McLaughlin and Nolen-Hoeksema, 2011). In addition, a study of 278 individuals with depression receiving Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) found that after CBT, both depression........

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