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I like audiobooks and podcasts when I need to replace my brain noise with something else. Currently listening to The Universe series on Crash Course podcasts. https://pca.st/podcast/a68a1cc0-d98e-013c-8c70-0288c31939f3
Anything by Hank and John Green is great for accessible science and topics that are not airy fairy but always hopeful. A bit out there but Stories of the Mahabharata is a family friendly telling of the great Indian mythic tale https://pca.st/podcast/2798d470-fcb5-0131-9d86-5f4c86fd3263
I also finished the full set of Discworld audiobooks but that's not accessible unless you have audible or similar subscription. Rumination is the thing that gets me but this helps because I can sleep or move at the same time as opposed to doomscrolling