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Life Happens with Barb & Michelle

223 - Overcoming Overwhelm: The Reset You Need When Life Feels Like Too Much

Life Happens with Barb & Michelle

Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt

Education, Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Personal Journals, Spirituality, Relationships, Parenting, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

When life feels too full, your greatest power is presence. 🌿

This week on Life Happens with Barb & Michelle, we’re breaking down how to move through overwhelm with ease and resilience. You’ll learn practical tools to pause, reset, and breathe, while letting go of what you can’t control. Remember—you’re not broken or in need of fixing. You’re worthy, just as you are.

✨ Episode Highlights:

  • Fixing vs. Shifting: releasing the idea that we’re broken
  • The power of small shifts in creating lasting change
  • Talking back to worry and taking back your control
  • Releasing thoughts and tasks that weigh on the mind
  • Building resilience by countering apathy with curiosity and fun

Discover how to anchor yourself in the present moment, release the mental noise, and reconnect with what truly matters—so you can navigate challenges with clarity, calm, and confidence.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

0:06.8

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

Not in the mood for miserable weather.

0:25.8

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.

0:28.7

Sun Express, nonstop sunshine.

0:31.5

Hi, everyone.

0:34.9

Welcome back to Life Happens podcast with Barb and Michelle.

0:38.5

We're so excited to have you all with us for today's conversation.

0:43.8

It's going to be a good one. After last week's conversation about multitasking and the power of presence, we had a lot of feedback, a lot of questions, just we felt like there was so much more

0:49.2

to say. So we're going to kind of piggyback off of last week's conversation and dive in a little

0:53.9

deeper and talk

0:54.8

more about some of the nuances, the emotions, the benefits, the everything about presence, how

1:01.3

it's your power, and so much more, which I'm excited about. So let's dive in. It's my favorite

1:08.0

subject. Hi. It is your favorite subject. Yeah, because there's a lot of nuances to it.

1:11.6

You use the word a lot, nuances.

1:13.6

There's a lot to it.

1:14.6

And I feel like last week we really laid the groundwork and laid the foundation and kind of

1:20.6

sewed a lot of amazing seeds that we can talk about tying together, why there's so much

1:25.6

controversy about multitasking and all that, understanding what that means.

1:29.4

That's why I almost don't even like those definitions and those words anymore, because we all

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