SOFTEN THE Grip OF OVERTHINKING
This is the home of Serena Choo’s books and reflections.
They’re written for those moments when striving grows tired… when you’ve tried to quiet your mind, fix what feels stuck, and make sense of what you’re feeling… and still sense there must be an easier way to live and to thrive.
The work here doesn’t offer another system, method, or mindset. It invites a different perspective — one that begins to soften the cycle of overthinking, effort and self-doubt.
You don’t need to arrive with certainty, only with a little willingness to look in a new direction.
If you’re here because something feels missing, or because you feel there is more than the life you’ve been managing in your head, you’re in the right place.
You’re welcome exactly as you are.
The Work
One Destination, Two Paths
The work here takes shape in two main ways. Not separate paths, but different doorways to the same question:
Is there an easier way to live with what we think and feel?
Some readers arrive through story. Others through something more practical.
Many find themselves moving between the two.
Others discover they need both.
Philosophy and Story
Zen & Consciousness
Gentle, Zen-inspired stories for those who overthink and feel stressed, about a restless mind learning to settle, and about finding calm, clarity, and inner freedom in everyday life — often through metaphor, humour, and quiet moments of recognition.
Psychology and Practice
Clarity & Confidence
For those navigating self-doubt, overthinking, and imposter syndrome, a grounded exploration of confidence and self-trust, not as something to build, but as something already present beneath years of self-doubt and learned conditioning — without turning life into another self-improvement project.
Sometimes, the smallest shift in perspective changes everything.
Serena Choo
The Journey
About Serena
Serena Choo writes from a lived exploration of consciousness, moving away from a life of constant striving toward a shift in perspective. With a 25-year background in finance and executive coaching, she deeply understands the cycles of overthinking and self-doubt that often accompany high achievement. Her work explores a return to something simpler and more authentic beneath old patterns of conditioning. Today, she writes stories and reflections that invite the same recognition in others – not self-improvement, but the freedom that comes from meeting life with less effort and more trust.