Jennie Allen: How to Stop the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

At 3 a.m., when most of the world was asleep, Jennie Allen’s mind refused to rest. Thoughts rushed in — worries, doubts, questions she couldn’t silence. She’d lie awake, trapped in a mental loop that felt impossible to escape.“I just sat there and thought all these toxic thoughts over and over again,” she remembers. “I can look back and see clearly it was spiritual warfare, but I didn’t realize it at the time.”That year and a half of sleepless nights convinced Allen of something she’d always bel