Becoming Friends With Overwhelm
The first step to getting rid of overwhelm is to understand it.
Instead of being mad about it, be curious about it. Observe what’s happening, and you’ll start to see patterns.
Think about the past week and ask yourself:
When do I feel it most?
Is there a time of day that overwhelm shows up?
Getting out the door in the morning. The transition from work to home. That end-of-day stretch when everyone needs something (my mom used to call it the witching hour). Just notice.
Where does it show up?
Is there a situation that consistently feels overwhelming?
Maybe it’s leading a meeting where you feel pressure to perform. Maybe it’s opening your inbox and seeing too many decisions waiting for you. Maybe it’s trying to manage multiple priorities at once with no clear starting point.
Who is involved?
Are there certain people or interactions that tend to trigger overwhelm?
A boss. A coworker. A family member. Even a well-meaning friend who asks for too much.
When you start asking these questions, two things happen.
First, your brain gets evidence that overwhelm is not your entire life. It’s happening in specific moments, not everywhere, all the time.
Second, you give yourself something you can actually work with. You’re no longer stuck in: “Everything feels overwhelming and I don’t even know where to start.”
Now it becomes: “This part of my day feels overwhelming. This situation. This interaction.”
And that is something you can solve.
HOT OFF THE PRESS
“Often it's the little things, not the big ones, that are making us feel stressed.”
Stress doesn’t always come from the biggest things on your plate. Sometimes it’s the small things—an appointment you know you need to make, an email you need to reply to, that empty coffee mug you keep walking past—that can cause big overwhelm.
Your brain gets cluttered by those thousand tiny unfinished tasks, and it’s draining your energy more than the big stuff ever could.
This episode exists to show you a simple shift that helps you immediately reduce mental clutter, feel lighter, and create momentum—without needing more time, discipline, or a complicated system.
Check out episode 244 here: https://tinyurl.com/OWWPod.
“What if everything you believe about overwhelm is what’s actually keeping you stuck?”
Most people think overwhelm is caused by how much they have to do. But that’s not actually true.
Overwhelm is created by how we think, how we react, and how we avoid the things that actually need our attention.
Many women just keep searching for better planners, tighter schedules, and more efficient routines—hoping that this will finally fix how they feel.
But no one ever told them that the real problem isn’t their to-do list…it’s the invisible patterns running underneath everything.
This special anniversary episode breaks down the five core truths that sit underneath everything I’ve taught over the last three years, because once you see them, you can finally start doing life differently.
Listen to episode 245 here: https://tinyurl.com/OWWPod!
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