Hello and welcome to today's episode of the Absolute Mind podcast, Becoming Mentally Healthy.

Now, before we go into the podcast, I quickly want to remind you all about the Facebook group

that is live on Facebook covering many ways in which you can become mentally healthy.

So if you're looking to gain an understanding of your emotions, how to control

them, to gain responsibility and accountability and get better overall mental health,

this group is perfect for you. It's Facebook and it's the absolute mind becoming mentally

healthy group. The numbers are way over the 400s now and I

would love to get the numbers even higher. So please do go on over and join the group. Come and

interact with everybody that's in there. We're all there to help and support and I look forward

to welcoming you into the group. Now on to today's podcast, which is actually a comment that was put in the group, so in that

Facebook group, and it was, I asked a question about things that people struggle with on a daily

basis that maybe they feel is impacting their mental health.

And one of the members of the group come back with feelings of

being overwhelmed. And, you know, I did, I went live on there to cover this subject and answer

some questions for people. So I thought I'd do a podcast on being overwhelmed and how you can

tackle that and how you can begin to deal with

these feelings of overwhelmed with too much, whether it's too much stress, whether it's too

much of a workload, whether it's overwhelmed with the work-life balance or anything, just

feeling like you're not quite coping with things. So this is, it's quite normal and standard

nowadays for us to be overwhelmed and for us to be stressed simply because of the lifestyles that

we lead. And, you know, we put so much on ourselves that the stress builds up. We start to lose focus, we start to lose track, we start to lose

track, we start to lose drive and motivation. So the small things then start to get left out. So

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