053: Overwhelm

You know that overwhelmed feeling. The one where everything feels too big, too complex, too hard, too much. It's a feeling that everyone has experienced on the odd occasion and today Kelly and Brooke talk about how they deal with it. In an ideal world we would head this feeling off before it became a big issue, but so often we find ourselves doing the opposite – avoiding the problem and focusing on busy-work instead. Kelly shares a recent experience of this kind of self-sabotage and Brooke shares how gardening becomes her go-to avoidance technique when she's feeling overwhelmed. But instead of giving in to procrastination, how can we avoid or minimize overwhelm in the first place? Brooke and Kelly both have some really practical strategies that will stop that spiraling feeling in its tracks, as well as some encouragement to simply accept that life sometimes happens that way. They also talk about what causes this overwhelm in the first place – ego, expectations, obligations, a lack of realistic time management – and why it's so important to begin to recognize those tendencies in ourselves so that we can stop overwhelm from becoming a constant companion. Be sure to join the Let It Be Facebook group ( ) and head over to to learn more about Kelly and Brooke!

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053: Overwhelm is an episode from Let It Be by Jackrabbit.FM.

This episode is 32:57 long.

This episode was published on Mar 6, 2017.

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