Do We Have to Be Overwhelmed?

"I was having endless stressful experiences with limited resources that everything did feel like it was breaking me," she says. "So when I pulled back and viewed my familiar zone was feeling stressed all the time was actually looking for and sometimes even creating in my current moment something to be overwhelmed by." For a lot of us, it means not only witnessing, but adding to the emotional overwhelming experience of bearing witness,. She adds: "Oh my gosh, I've created the exact thing that has been at the root of my suffering for some of us for our lifetime"