Catch the Lie
How to Stop Overthinking and Believe What's Actually TrueBy Kyrie Anderson
Length3h 44m
About this audiobook
Your brain is not your friend.
It is not designed to make you happy, or to tell you the truth, or to accurately report what's real. It is designed to keep you alive — and four hundred million years of evolution never got the memo that you're not being chased by a predator, you're just lying awake at 2:47 a.m. running a scenario about a text you sent three hours ago.
Catch the Lie is a clear-eyed, evidence-based guide to the four specific lies your brain tells you on a loop — Anxiety, Doubt, Catastrophe, and Comparison — and what fifty years of cognitive science actually says about disarming them. Drawing on the work of Aaron Beck, Daniel Kahneman, Lisa Feldman Barrett, and Judson Brewer, Kyrie Anderson translates decades of clinical research into the Thought Trial: five concrete questions you can run on any lying thought, starting tonight.
This is not a spiritual book. There's no mysticism here, no non-dual philosophy, no instruction to simply "stop thinking." This is a practical, sometimes uncomfortable look at why your mind malfunctions in a world it was never built for — and a specific, testable method for building the gap between what your brain says and what you choose to believe.
You won't become a different person. You'll become the same person, with a lot less suffering manufactured by your own thoughts.
Your brain is already lying to you. Time to start catching it.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help, Psychology
Length3 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2The Brain as Unreliable Narrator
3Who this book is for
4Who this book is not for
5How the book is organized
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6A note on examples
7What I hope you get from this book
8Chapter 1
9Your Brain Is Not Your Friend
10What your brain actually is
11What the research says about this
12The three jobs of your brain that are working against you
13Why believing the brain makes everything worse
14What Rachel did, briefly
15Try this: Notice One Story Today
16The Takeaway
17Chapter 2
18The Four Lies
19Why naming them matters
20Lie 1: The Anxiety Lie
21Lie 2: The Doubt Lie
22Lie 3: The Catastrophe Lie
23Lie 4: The Comparison Lie
24How the Four Lies work together
25What the Thought Trial does
26Try this: Catch One Lie Today
27The Takeaway
28Chapter 3
29Why the Glitch Exists
30System 1 and System 2
31The negativity bias
32The brain's preference for false positives
33Why modern life makes the glitch worse
34Why this is actually good news
35Try this: Label the System
36The Takeaway
37Chapter 4
38The Anxiety Lie
39What the Anxiety Lie says, and how to recognize it
40What the research says about this
41Why you cannot reason your way out of the Anxiety Lie
42The three specific moves
43What Daniel did
44Try this: The Alarm Log
45The Takeaway
46Chapter 5
47The Doubt Lie
48The inner voice research
49What the Doubt Lie actually says
50The impostor pattern
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