Reimagining Love with Dr. Alexandra Solomon
Mar 17, 2026 · 57 min · 15 segments
Cycles of rumination and overthinking can be hard to break free from, and they can negatively impact us and our relationships. In this episode, therapist Alicia Muñoz joins Dr. Alexandra to address…
Today's dive into the vault brings us back to my conversation with Alicia Munoz.
Lately, between reflecting on my episode with Deb Dana on connection through our nervous system first and the story second, which is so not our instinct, as well as my conversation with Noelle McWard Aquino about anxiety and how the common theme is that anxiety is born out of our discomfort with uncertainty.
This reminded me of how Alicia Munoz speaks about rumination and overthinking.
In fact, in this episode, she says something that I love, love, love, which is, quote, "The cultural enshrinement of rationality and thinking ends up marginalizing presence and awareness and uncertainty and being in the moment and wonder and awe, just the experience of being human and not knowing, which is the foundation of any kind of intimate connection with other people." End quote.
With the amazing offerings for our minds that are available to us today, I'd like to also invite you to feel into your bodily experience and perhaps to even embrace uncertainty.
Today's dive into the vault brings us back to my conversation with Alicia Munoz.
Lately, between reflecting on my episode with Deb Dana on connection through our nervous system first and the story second, which is so not our instinct, as well as my conversation with Noelle McWard Aquino about anxiety and how the common theme is that anxiety is born out of our discomfort with uncertainty.
This reminded me of how Alicia Munoz speaks about rumination and overthinking.
In fact, in this episode, she says something that I love, love, love, which is, quote, "The cultural enshrinement of rationality and thinking ends up marginalizing presence and awareness and uncertainty and being in the moment and wonder and awe, just the experience of being human and not knowing, which is the foundation of any kind of intimate connection with other people." End quote.
With the amazing offerings for our minds that are available to us today, I'd like to also invite you to feel into your bodily experience and perhaps to even embrace uncertainty.
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