<p>“Fun begins in the body, not the brain.”<br />“If you’re stuck in your head… fun can’t find you.”</p><p>Do you want more fun in your life—but feel like your mind is the biggest obstacle?</p><p>This powerful <strong>Ask Me Anything</strong> episode of the <strong>Finding Fun Experiment Podcast</strong> explores how <strong>living in your head</strong> quietly disconnects you from joy, play, energy, and aliveness.</p><p>Host <strong>Treena Innes</strong>, Life Fun Expert, coaches Jennifer—a mom, modern medium, and deeply intuitive woman—through the real reason fun feels hard: <strong>overthinking, self-analysis, and mental looping </strong>that blocks people from being present in their bodies and in their lives.</p><p>This conversation is a mirror for so many adults who are:</p><p>• Highly thoughtful</p><p>• Deep feelers</p><p>• Big thinkers</p><p>• Constant planners</p><p>And wondering why fun feels so far away.</p><p>This episode reveals a truth many people don’t realize:</p><p>👉 You don’t lose fun because you’re too busy.<br />👉 You lose fun because you’re <strong>too mentally occupied</strong>.</p><p>When you live in your head:</p><p><br /></p><p>• You analyze instead of experience</p><p>• You plan instead of play</p><p>• You overprocess instead of move </p><p>Jennifer shares how being highly mental and intuitive keeps her disconnected from her body—and how that disconnection blocks fun, spontaneity, and joy.</p><p><strong>🎧 In This Episode, You’ll Discover:</strong></p><ul> • Why being “in your head” shuts down play and pleasure</ul><ul>• How mental looping creates emotional exhaustion</ul><ul>• Why fun requires embodiment, not thinking </ul><p><strong>🔑 Tools to Get Out of Your Head and Back Into Your Life</strong></p><p>Treena shares <strong>simple, neuroscience-aligned practices</strong> to break the overthinking loop and reconnect with fun:</p><p><strong>1️⃣ The “Why Not” Rewire</strong></p><p>Overthinkers ask <em>why</em>.<br />Fun lives in <strong>why not</strong>.</p><p><strong>2️⃣ The Two-Second Rule</strong></p><p>Your brain will always talk you out of fun.</p><p>So don’t give it time.</p><p><strong>3️⃣ Private Play (Don’t Tell Anyone)</strong></p><p>Fear of judgment keeps people stuck in their heads.</p><p><strong>💡 Core Truth of This Episode</strong></p><p><strong>Fun is not a mindset problem.</strong><br /><strong>It’s an embodiment problem.</strong></p><p>You don’t think your way into joy.<br />You move your way into it.<br />You feel your way into it.<br />You live your way into it.</p><p>Fun lives in:</p><ul>• Movement</ul><ul>• Presence</ul><ul>• Sensation</ul><ul>• Curiosity</ul><ul>• Play</ul><ul>• Energy</ul><ul>• The nervous system</ul><ul>• The body </ul><p>Not the brain.</p><p></p><p><strong>About the Guest: Jennifer</strong> is a warm, compassionate loving woman (picture, warm cozy gigantic long hugs!) who is part of Modern Medium https://themodernmedium.ca/ and you can follow here instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sessionswithspirit/</p><p><br /></p><p>✨ <strong>Loved this episode? </strong>Share it with a friend who needs more fun in their life, subscribe to the podcast, and join the FUN Movement.</p><p><br /></p><p>****</p><p>Join the <strong>Global Fun Movement on my email list</strong> and get monthly tools, stories, and psychology-backed ways to spark joy and live lively:</p><p><a href="http://www.minddoodles.ca" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.minddoodles.ca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p><br /></p><p>🎵 Music by Allstar musicians <strong>Per Hoffman</strong> and <strong>David Hilton Clark</strong></p><p><br /></p><p>Treena Innes, Your Life Fun Expert, helping you have more fun in life or the workplace.</p><p>www.minddoodles.ca </p><p>[email protected] </p><p></p>