The Mindset Mentor Feeling Overwhelmed? Try This…
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Sep 15, 2025 Feeling overwhelmed by life's demands? Discover how to regain control of your mind and schedule. Explore the emotional impacts of modern stress and learn to reframe your narrative. Personal responsibility is key to differentiating between internal and external stressors. The podcast offers mindfulness techniques for productivity and emphasizes joy in daily tasks. Effective strategies like cold exposure and stress journaling are shared, guiding you to embrace overwhelm as a signal for necessary change.
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Overwhelm Is A Bodily Warning
- Overwhelm is both mental and physical because stress hormones flood your body and shorten healthspan.
- Recognizing overwhelm as bodily warning gives permission to slow down and respond differently.
Modern Life Hijacks Natural Rhythms
- Modern life supplies constant stimulation that our hunter-gatherer brains weren't built to handle.
- Short adrenaline bursts followed by deep rest used to balance stress, but today's nonstop pace hijacks those rhythms.
Overwhelm Is Stacked Mental Load
- Overwhelm arises from cognitive, emotional, and physical loads stacking like weights in a backpack.
- The mind's workload often drives physical stress even when the body is sedentary.