The Three Questions I Took From Soundtracks And Why I Recommend This Book

Hi, it’s Diana from We Get Better with Age, and I’m continuing my series on books I’ve read and genuinely enjoyed.

This time I’m sharing Soundtracks, The Surprising Solution to Overthinking by Jon Acuff, a book that gets at something so ordinary and so pervasive that most of us hardly notice it anymore. We live inside a steady stream of repeated thoughts about ourselves, our relationships, our bodies, our future, our work, our families, and what is or is not still possible. Some of those thoughts help us move through life with courage and clarity. Others quietly drain our energy, narrow our choices, and leave us stuck in patterns we mistake for personality. Acuff calls those repeated thoughts “soundtracks,” and once I had that language for them, I started hearing them everywhere.

What I appreciate most about this book is that it takes a familiar experience, overthinking, and reframes it in a way that feels both compassionate and useful. On the official book pages, Acuff describes overth…