Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking about overwhelm.

Hey everyone, welcome to the podcast this week. Some of you have already gone back to school and some of you are just about to start.

And guess what I keep hearing from you?

I've had so many of you tell me that you are overwhelmed.

So let's talk about overwhelmed today.

And I do have to say that I am an expert at feeling overwhelmed.

It's probably one of the feelings that I experience the most in my life.

I'm very, very good at it.

Okay?

So especially this last week as we are trying to move into a different house,

there's a lot for me to try to manage in my brain.

All right.

And you guys are so busy. You have school and however many classes you are taking and multiple teachers to communicate with.

You have homework and projects for those classes. And you have extracurriculars like clubs, sports, dance, music, and maybe some of you even

have jobs and volunteer positions. And then you have your friends and a social life that you

have to manage. And you are probably in some sort of household where you have to maintain some

sort of responsibilities like chores

and family activities. And then in all of this, you are somehow supposed to manage getting

enough sleep and leaving enough time for self-care. Right? It's a lot. There's a lot going on

in your lives. Okay. So all of these things in our lives can be

overwhelming, but all of these circumstances in our lives are not actually what causes the

overwhelm that we feel. Okay. It's not the situations that we have. It's like the sports it's not the homework it's not all

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