About Overthink Press
For minds that carry more than people can see.
Overthink Press began during a time when I looked capable on the outside but felt very different inside.
I was still working, solving problems, meeting responsibilities, helping other people, and doing what needed to be done. From a distance, I probably looked fine. Productive, even.
But a person can continue functioning while quietly struggling.
Behind the capable version of me was a mind that rarely became quiet. I was carrying anxiety, emotional exhaustion, confusion, disappointment, and questions I did not always know how to ask. Some days, my thoughts moved faster than I could organize them. On other days, even simple things felt heavier than they should.
There were experiences that changed how I saw my work, my relationships, my health, and myself. I began to understand how quickly the life you recognize can become unfamiliar. I also learned that being strong does not prevent you from becoming overwhelmed. Sometimes strength simply teaches you how to hide it longer.
I spent a great deal of time trying to understand what had happened, what it meant, and who I was when the roles and routines that once defined me no longer felt secure.
I will keep the details private because not every painful experience needs to become public property. But the feelings behind them are real, and they are shared by more people than we realize.
That realization became the beginning of Overthink Press.
Part of the process
This website is part of my healing.
I created Overthink Press because I needed somewhere honest to put the thoughts I had been carrying.
Writing gave those thoughts somewhere to go. Art helped me express what I could not always explain. Humor gave me a little breathing room when everything felt too serious. Slowly, creating became more than a distraction. It became a way to understand myself without judging every feeling before I had even finished having it.
I am not creating this from the other side of a perfectly completed recovery. I am creating it while I am still learning, adjusting, rebuilding, and occasionally staring at the ceiling while my mind schedules an emergency meeting at two in the morning.
Healing is rarely a clean, inspiring line from hurt to happiness. It can be inconsistent and frustrating. It can look like progress one day and survival the next. Sometimes it means taking a meaningful step forward. Sometimes it means resting without turning that rest into another reason to feel guilty.
Overthink Press gives me a place to turn difficult experiences into something thoughtful and useful. It allows me to create meaning from moments that once felt confusing, painful, or impossible to explain.
It is personal, but it is not only about me.
It is for anyone who has ever said “I’m fine” because the honest answer felt too complicated. It is for people living with anxiety, depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, burnout, grief, emotional exhaustion, or a mind that simply feels louder than the world around it.
It is also for the people who continue showing up while carrying things nobody else can see.
Our mission
Honest stories, thoughtful artwork, and grounded tools.
Overthink Press creates for people navigating mental health challenges and the complicated experience of being human.
Our purpose is not to diagnose, label, or reduce anyone to a condition. A diagnosis may explain part of someone’s experience, but it does not explain the whole person. Here, the person always comes first.
Through short stories, articles, reflections, artwork, and practical ideas, Overthink Press explores the thoughts and emotions people often hide behind productivity, humor, independence, and the familiar answer, “I’m okay.”
Some pieces will be serious. Others will be witty, because humor can help us breathe without making the pain itself the joke. The goal is not to pretend difficult experiences are easy. It is to make them feel less lonely and a little easier to name.
Overthink Press is not here to promise a perfect life or offer five easy steps to becoming a completely different person by Monday morning.
It is here to offer recognition. A moment of relief. A thought that helps you feel understood. A reminder that struggling does not make you weak, broken, dramatic, or incapable.
Healing through creating
Overthink Press is growing as I grow.
Every story I write helps me understand something I once carried silently. Every piece of artwork gives shape to a feeling that may not have had words. Every honest reflection helps me separate who I am from what happened to me.
I do not know exactly where this process will lead, and I think that is part of its honesty. This space will not always have perfect answers, because people rarely do. What it can offer is sincerity, curiosity, compassion, and a place where difficult thoughts do not have to arrive polished before they are allowed to exist.
If something here makes you pause, laugh, breathe more deeply, or quietly think, “I thought I was the only one,” then this space is doing what I hoped it would do.
You are not the only one. Neither am I. And perhaps healing sometimes begins there.
Contact Overthink Press
Have a question, collaboration idea, or thoughtful note?
Email kate@overthinkpress.com.