• Welcome to

    Overthinkers Anonymous

  • Are you stuck in your head?

    Is your mind busy? Do you lie awake at 3am with racing thoughts? Do you get in your own way? If so, this is for you.

    The Overthinkers' approach offers a unique way to get out of your head and into your life: a life with more calm, clarity and confidence. It's not about positive thinking or trying to control what's going on in your mind. None of that works. Instead, it's about changing your relationship to your thinking, and trusting your heart more.

    I'm Andrew - a coach, author and founder of Overthinkers Anonymous. I added 'Anonymous' to the name because I think many of you are suffering in secret. By day, you wear your professional mask. But at night, it's a different story. It's time to change all that.

  • Your heart is saner than your head

    I talk a lot about the shift from the head to the heart. It's the thing that's made the most difference in my life.

    I was brought up to value the intellect above all else. I was told I was clever at school. I used my mind to keep me out of trouble.

    For many years I was an award-winning advertising copywriter and creative leader. On the surface, everything was rosy. But underneath, I was stressed. I was always in my head. My heart wasn't in it. My sleep suffered. It got to the point where I was running on fumes.

    It took me a long time to realise that my heart’s intelligence is smarter and saner than my intellect. My mind thinks it knows. But my heart really knows. More and more, I act in line with this insight. I feel more fulfilled, happier, alive, authentic and human when I let my heart lead. I’m not saying my head suddenly doesn’t have a part to play. My mind is still a valuable tool. To put it in the language of my old ad agency world, my heart creates the strategy, my head crafts the tactics.

     

     

  • Are you living from your head or your heart?

    Signs you're living from your head


    - You feel constantly busy and find it hard to switch off
    - You see everything as a problem to solve
    - You feel like you're just going through the motions
    - You don't really know what you want from life

    Signs you've made the shift to the heart:

    - You feel at home in the world, like you're in the right place for you
    - You're connected to a genuine sense of aliveness and vitality. You feel calmer, clearer, more confident
    - There's a deeper trust in life, even when you're going through challenging situations

    If this resonates and you think talking to me could help, I'd invite you to act on that instinct. Book a free chat with me. You'll have the chance to tell me more about where you're at, and I'll tell you more about my head-heart shift coaching programme. If it's right for you, it could make a huge difference in your life. And if it's not, that's no problem at all.

    Many of my clients are agency owners or directors. I also work with lots of creatives, strategists, marketers, and qual researchers.

    You can book a free, initial consultation at: calendly.com/andrewsewellcoach/45min-coaching-consult

  • Client testimonials

    Antony Mason

    Technical Operations Leader at GE Healthcare

    "In a year of massive change for me personally and the business as a whole, coaching with Andrew helped keep me sane.

    He supported me, challenged my mindset, and helped me develop clear insight into what I should and could be doing."

    Kenny Fox

    Research Director at

    davies & mckerr

    "I started working with Andrew when the self-critical voice in my head suddenly found a megaphone.


    Andrew made me realise that these thoughts were just that, thoughts, and gave me the tools to understand them. I'm without doubt more confident in my job and life, which I put down to working with Andrew."

    Emily Larkin

    Head of Employer Brand

    at the BBC

    "I've worked with Andrew previously as a writer and more recently as a coach. He's provided invaluable support to my overthinking mind, as I navigated a recent career transition and landed in a new role.

    I always leave the sessions with a renewed sense of calm and connection to my instincts. I would recommend to anyone who could benefit from a regular break from a busy head, in a relaxed, grounded, and entirely non-judgemental space."

    Chloe Fowler

    Founder at The Nest Research

    "I started working with Andrew as I made the decision to step down from owning a successful research agency and go it alone.

    My sessions were so helpful. Andrew shifted his style to suit my needs – from coach, to mentor, to creative collaborator, to cheerleader, to kind critic. I've gone from being clueless to having a brand, a vision, a website, a strategy. Ultimately, he's helped with the thing I needed to discover the most – my story."

    Sanjay Mitra

    Corporate Partnerships Manager

    at Speech and Language UK

    "I can wholeheartedly say that I feel much better equipped to meet my work challenges, and more confident in meetings and presentations. I am now finding ways to bring more of my authentic voice to the table."

    Tom Anderson

    Managing Partner at davies & mckerr

    "After a successful, but frantic few years, and facing a major moment in my career, I got in touch with Andrew with the aim of trying to avoid burning out.

    Our conversations together were far more wide ranging. Andrew helped me reframe the way I viewed work, allowing me to identify what is actually important and re-find my excitement for the work I do."

  • The book

    The Overthinker's Guide to Life is a 28-day guide that's informative, practical and easy on the eye. It's like a Couch to 5K for overthinkers.

     

    Here's a taste of what readers say:

     

    "Candid, warm, inspirational — I’ve read plenty of self-help stuff over the years and none of it has resonated with me half as much as The Overthinker’s Guide to Life."

     

    "Andrew has written a selp-help book that is TRULY helpful."

     

    "I read this was a smile on my face. Such a logical, friendly, warm and open approach to a big subject. This is ace. And completely life-changing."

     

    Read more reviews and buy the full colour, print edition of the book on Amazon at The Overthinker's Guide to Life

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  • A bit more about me

    The official bio

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    Andrew Sewell is a highly experienced leadership & personal coach, speaker and author.

    Over the last six years, he has coached clients with senior roles in organisations such as GE Healthcare, John Lewis, Havas, HSBC, Roche, Coles (the Australian supermarket), as well as a range of creative, insight and design agencies.

    Before becoming a coach, Andrew had a wide-ranging career. This included scriptwriting in Hollywood and stand-up comedy, as well as many years as an advertising copywriter and creative leader.

    For Andrew, coaching is not a game of coach and client. It’s about two or more intelligent people having an honest conversation. A collaboration of equals. As a thinking partner, Andrew’s main strength is being able to help clients see beyond the blinkers of their own mind. From this new perspective, they have the chance to connect with their heart's desires and feel a greater sense of well-being in their lives.

    Qualifications include MSc Psychology (Distinction), PG Certificate in Business and Personal Coaching, BSc Health Studies, plus membership of the International Coaching Federation.

  • The bigger conversation

    As the founder of Overthinkers Anonymous (OA), I'm interested in a wider conversation about the shift from the head to the heart. For years, our culture has prized rational thinking over emotional and somatic intelligence. We've been taught to value the left hemisphere over the right. From the head perspective, it feels like you're an isolated individual - an island. Life is something to control, a problem to solve, something to get through: survive. As a result, we feel fragmented within ourselves, and separate from each other.

    From this mindset, we've created the attention fracking economy. Whoever captures your most valuable resource, your attention, wins. A lot of the time, we're either caught in the tractor beam of social media doomscrolling, or the tractor beam of our mind chatter: that critical inner voice.

    From the heart perpsective, it doesn't feel like this. There's more access to qualities like clarity, joy and beauty. There's a knowing that it's not just about survival, it's about flourishing.

    There's an understanding that we're already whole, and that we're inherently relational beings. As the poet John Donne said, 'No man is an island.' Obviously, wisdom traditions have been pointing to this head-heart shift for centuries. I'm curious to explore how it works in the context of now: an age where Ai acts like a super self who's stuck in their head.

    The core belief of OA is that the heart is saner than the head. If you make the shift and allow your heart to lead, your head follows. In its rightful place as the servant to the heart, your thinking mind is free to become the incredibly useful tool we all know it can be. In this way, you live more in alignment with life. You become the change you want to see in the world.

  • Podcasts

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    To pick up some valuable tips on overcoming overthinking, check out my podcast chat with Simon Mundie:

    How to stop overthinking, Simon Mundie

    And if you want more, here's my conversation on the award-winning People Soup podcast: Overthinking with Andrew Sewell - People Soup

    And here's one where I talk about how to overcome overthinking in sport, in this case golf.

    Andrew Sewell on the Mind Caddie podcast.

  • Interested in working with me? Let's talk

    If you're interested in coaching, I'd love to hear more about your story and see if I'm the best person to help you. You can use this link to book a coaching consultation at a time that suits you.

    Book a 45-min coaching consultation with Andrew

    Alternatively, if you want to message me, the best email is andrew@overthinkers.co.uk

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