If you're completely overwhelmed, mentally, emotionally, or physically, and you're barely holding it together,

please listen up because today at Neuroanxiety Toolkit, we're going to talk about how your nervous

system is maxed out, and it's not your fault. In this episode, I'm going to give you couple,

most mainly three powerful mindset shifts and skills that you can use to help you get out of

this overwhelm and get you back into your body with science, self-compassion, and zero shame. You do not need to push through.

You need compassion and you need a good strategy. So let's slow it down together and do this in the most

kindest way. Welcome back everybody everybody, to your anxiety toolkit.

I am so happy you're here.

Before we get started, let's all just take a breath together

and acknowledge that overwhelm and stress are probably at their highest right now.

I know at least for me, it is incredibly high with all that's going on in the world,

all the changes, all of the conflict, the anxiety, the massive amount of work we've all got to do.

It's really a lot. And I was thinking today on what specifically I need to do. And I thought,

hey, you know what? Let's do this together. I'm going to work you through

exactly how I manage overwhelm. And hopefully, you leave with the exact same skills and you, number one,

feel some ease and calm in your body. But number two, you feel like you have a strategy for when

you have overwhel overwhelmed as well.

So again, I think the first step is just to take a breath. We have to slow down. My instinct when I am

overwhelmed is to speed up, to push through, to try and like get rid of it,

to get everything checked off on my list so I can remove the overwhelm.

But the problem is with that, is I'm working with a sense of overwhelm when I could slow down

and actually reduce my stress and my suffering and work at a

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