decatastrophizing

is the move from 'What if?' to 'So what?'

Recast in definition form from: “… It's not the end of the world; I can deal …”

catastrophizing

anxiety

calm

cognitive behavioral therapy

perspective

stoicism

worry

ad-lib

auscultation

belay

brainstorm

bullet time

chiaroscuro

clawhammer

cloning

closing the deal

cognitive distancing

cold reading

combat breathing

compliment sandwich

CRISPR

deep breathing

defamiliarization

detournement

drip painting

drum solo

Eskimo roll

estrangement-effect

FIFO

fMRI

Force choke

glassblowing

glissando

hospital corner

iambic pentameter

iceberg theory

illumination through contrast

impasto

improvisation

instrumentation

italic

jump scare

juxtaposition

kintsugi

literary technology

MacGuffin

metaphor

mind meld

mise en scène

mnemonic

modulation

montage

negative visualization

ninjutsu

ad lib

crispr

estrangement effect

fifo

fmri

macguffin

acronyms

anagram

antonym

Back in My Day

binomial

blonde joke

bumper sticker

Chuck Norris

cockney rhyming slang

collective noun

comeback

confucius say

cool comparisons

curse

death mask

Deep Thoughts

etymology

false attribution

famous last word

glossary

greeting

haiku

home remedy

I like my [x] like I like my [y]

idiom

let's make like a  . . .

life hack

light bulb joke

limerick

mixed metaphor

mnemonic device

murphy's law

my wife left me

nonsense question

ology (the study of)

optical illusion

oxymoron

palindrome

phobia

pickup line

psychological phenomena and effects

reimagining the x

riddle

seen here

slang

someone should invent

stupid law

superlative

superstition

symbolism

there's a word for that

things that look like other things

Thomasson hyperart

toast (speech)

Tom Swifty

tongue twister

trolley problem

untranslatable word

wacky wares

weather lore

WTF origins

decatastrophizing, n.All

decatastrophizing