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Anyone else find their head is like this?

One thing that rarely gets said when we talk about overwhelm, is how hard it is to break the cycle.

If anything, staying in the familiar spiral feels easier than the alternative.

As if you don’t spin all the plates and do all the things, how else will it get done?

For years I would say yes to everything, with very little thought as to what that really meant.

How it would leave me feeling energy wise, or how I could manage it all.

I would simply add more to the pile and keep adapting. Keep pushing the boundary of what I could manage.

Feeling the weight of it all constantly just felt like normal living.

It wasn’t until I hit burnout (a few times) that I realised that this couldn’t continue.

It wasn’t that I couldn’t do all the things.

It was that I never seemed to know how much was too much to have on my shoulders.

And when I got to that point, it would only take something small to be added to the pile, like baking cakes for another school fair, that would send everything toppling around me.

If breaking the cycle of overwhelm feels like something else to add to your to do list, please know it doesn’t have to be that way.

Starting small is where it begins. Small practices that can be interwoven in your day that show you what space is possible.

They are what lead to the bigger realisations.

Like knowing how much is enough and how much will leave you feeling like you’re completely overwhelmed.

Or what saying yes to something else really means for your mental load.

Practices like EFT tapping are a great way to help make sense of it all. It works like a brain hack that takes you out of the doing it all that you might have become accustomed to.

It gives you some space to see all that you have been holding and doing. Gently inquires to why that is.

And then helps you reprogramme that pattern.

Comment ME and I will send you a free EFT practice for overwhelm.

I know how easy it is to stay in the cycle of always doing.

Filling every available moment with productivity; the satisfaction of ticking things off the list, thinking through every scenario…
The constant problem solving for you and everyone else.

But the truth is this cycle can feel like an endless loop.

Which is why when anyone suggests resting or slowing down, you’re wondering when on earth you’re supposed to have time for that.

Or what that even looks or would feel like.

This is where the small moment matter.
Like this, where you can step off the treadmill of it all.

You can soothe your nervous system.
Take a moment to come back to you and out of the grip of the spiral.

Give this a go and notice how you feel. Let me know how you get on below.