When Your Mind Becomes Quicksand

A Practical Guide to Transforming Mental Chaos into Clear Action

You don't have to stay trapped in the swirling thoughts. You don't have to fix this alone.

PAIN POINT

You know the feeling.

That mental quicksand where every thought makes you sink deeper. Where you're drowning in overwhelm, paralyzed by possibility, spinning in circles while your chest tightens and your shoulders creep toward your ears.

You've tried everything—therapy, meditation, journaling, changing jobs, making lists. Some things help for a while. Most don't. The stuckness always comes back, like a shadow you can't shake.

Here's what's really happening: you're not broken. Your brain is just trying to hold too many pieces at once.

MY STORY

I learned this on a freezing New Jersey beach.

For years, my professional life looked like success from the outside. Google, LinkedIn, Atlassian—I was building products that reached millions. But under that polished surface, I felt stuck. Stuck in my head, stuck in my body. Like I was living underwater, constantly moving through mental quicksand I couldn't claw my way out of.

It took hitting bottom—miscarriage, illness, family fracture, everything falling apart at once—to push me into something different. That's when desperation led me to practices I'd never imagined: taking long walks through my own internal valleys and streams, making friends with the monsters and allies I met there.

And then learning to plant those insights like seeds in the physical world, watching them grow into the life I'm living now—by the ocean in Mexico, with my healthy baby boy, creating work that feeds my soul.

This isn't about positive thinking or life hacking. This is about learning to work with your whole self to dissolve stuckness from the inside out.

THE SOLUTION

There's a way through the quicksand.

What you need isn't more willpower or another productivity system. You need three simple steps that transform how your mind works with complexity:

Name it. Get those swirling thoughts out of your head and onto something you can actually work with.

Meet it. Instead of fighting your blocks and fears, learn to have conversations with them and transform enemies into allies.

Seed it. Take your insights and plant them in the physical world through symbols and tiny actions that grow into lasting change.

Each step is simple enough to do in your kitchen. None require special training or expensive tools. But together, they create a gentle structure that can dissolve even the most stubborn stuckness.

THIS METHOD

STEP 1: NAME IT

Transform Mental Chaos

Turn your swirling, tangled thoughts into clear, visible pieces using the ancient human practice of visual thinking. Free up your mental capacity and see patterns that were invisible before.

Science: Cognitive Load Theory + Dual Coding Theory

STEP 2: MEET IT

Befriend Your Blocks

Instead of fighting your resistance and fears, learn to have actual conversations with them through inner dialogue. Discover that what feels like your enemy is often carrying exactly the medicine you need.

Science: Active Imagination + Internal Family Systems

STEP 3: SEED IT

Plant Real Change

Take insights from your inner work and plant them in the physical world through symbols, rituals, and tiny actions that rewire your reality from the ground up.

Science: Unconscious Processing + Symbol Psychology

TRANSFORMATION PROMISE SECTION

Here's what becomes possible:

After one week: You have one clear, concrete next step and the energy to take it. The fog has lifted. You've stopped fighting the part of yourself that was stuck and started listening to what it actually needs.

After one month: You've used the method 2-3 more times when new stuckness arose. You notice patterns differently—seeing obstacles as information rather than problems. You trust your instincts more and second-guess yourself less.

The deeper transformation: You've stopped seeing yourself as broken or stuck, and started seeing stuckness as an invitation to remember your own wisdom.

You are both the gardener and the garden.

WHAT'S IN THE BOOK

Get Unstuck gives you:

• The complete 3-step method with detailed instructions

• The science behind why it works (featuring research from Stanford, Harvard, and leading neuroscientists)

• Real stories of transformation, including my own journey from corporate burnout to creative fulfillment

• Practical exercises you can do with sticky notes and chairs

• Ancient wisdom meets modern psychology

• A bridge between insight and action that actually works

This isn't theory. This is a method born from desperation, refined through practice, and backed by science.

ABOUT JAMIE SECTION

Who am I to teach you this?

I'm Jamie Murphey, and I've spent years inside some of the biggest companies in the world—Google, LinkedIn, Atlassian—helping build products that reached millions. But I've always needed room to think sideways, to make connections that don't make sense until they do.

When my own life fell apart, I discovered that the same visual thinking tools I used in corporate workshops could transform my inner world. I combined them with ancient practices of inner dialogue and symbol-making, creating a method that has helped hundreds of people move from stuck to clear.

I'm not here to hand down answers. I'm here to remind you that you already have them.

Now I’m living by the ocean in Mexico with my husband and baby boy, creating tools that help people remember their own wisdom.

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Ready to get unstuck?

The seeds are waiting to be planted. The allies are ready to be awakened. The tools are simple, practical, and proven.

You don't have to stay trapped in quicksand.

Available in digital format for immediate download

FAQ SECTION

Is this just another self-help book?

No. This method combines ancient wisdom with cutting-edge science. Every step is backed by research in psychology and neuroscience, but delivered in plain language you can use immediately.

How long does it take to see results?

Many people feel a shift after their first session with the sticky note exercise. The complete method can transform a stuck situation in a single afternoon, though deeper patterns may take longer to shift.

What if I'm not creative or visual?

You don't need to be artistic. The visual thinking in this method is about making thoughts concrete, not creating art. If you can write on a sticky note and move it around, you can do this.

Is this based on real science?

Absolutely. The method draws on Cognitive Load Theory, Dual Coding Theory, research on external representations, and decades of psychological research on symbol processing and inner dialogue.

What if I've tried everything else?

This method works differently than traditional approaches. Instead of trying to think your way out of stuckness, you learn to work with your whole self—mind, body, and the spaces in between where real change happens.