You're listening to the Confidence Podcast. Your favorite coaching podcast oozes in with motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams.

On your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized Confidence Coach, best-selling author, and founder of the College of Confidence, the most encouraging place on the Internet.

I teach go getters in life, how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of the shadows of self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to pump our confidence muscles and train our thoughts y'all.

Let's get started. Hey guys, it's Trish Blackwell, your confidence coach. I'm so happy that you're spending time investing in yourself and your confidence today because when you invest in your confidence,

you are at the same time investing in your courage and at the same time investing in your calling.

You by curating, cultivating your confidence in your courage and training your thoughts and questioning how you think and reframing all of that, all of that works together to help you become just a little bit better a version of yourself.

That every day we become a little bit more vibrant, a little bit more alive, a little bit more the people that God created us to be and because when you show up in your uniqueness that God put inside you, that is when you tap into the greatness you're supposed to do in this world.

That is how we step into our calling and our purpose and we do things that change the world now in doing that.

Sometimes it's easy to feel overwhelmed and that's what we're talking to you about in episode 487, what to do about overwhelm.

The reality is that overwhelm is one of the things that's going to keep you stuck. It's sort of like a tarp it's sticky and icky and easy to fall into and everywhere you look.

If you did a poll of people that you know, most people go, I'm really stressed or I'm feeling all overwhelmed.

And what we do is overwhelm is an indulgent emotion that if we don't challenge it, if we don't speak to it, if we don't break it down, it becomes a giant in our lives that intimidates us, that syncs us into the shadows and that keeps us playing small, being timid.

And not really doing in this world what we were called to do.

So we're going to talk about overwhelm whether you're overwhelmed about applying to grad school or you're overwhelmed with, with committing to maybe going to the next level in that relationship that you feel could lead to marriage.

Or you're overwhelmed in starting a business and thinking about the future and you get so stuck on your past, your past failures that and so overwhelmed by not knowing how to get to that future that you want that you just stop and stagnate or maybe you're just feeling overwhelmed with the amount of things to do in the day.

Listen, if you've ever felt the emotion of overwhelm this episode is for you.

So in this episode of the confidence podcast, we're talking about what the brain does when it gets stuck in overwhelm and why it keeps you stressed, why we're going to talk about and explore a little bit the relationship between overwhelm and stress.

And then why you are feeling overwhelmed all the time and what to do about it. And also you might not notice we're going to go in a little in depth about when to notice if you feel overwhelmed.

You might not always label it as overwhelmed. And I got to, you know, I'm going to actually let's do a sidebar here.

People who even go into the coaching, I often feel the emotion of overwhelm because for somebody that is wired the way I am, I'm wired to be type A perfectionistic and I've worked against really finding the healthy version of those things.

But in my anxiety, that low-grade anxiety that I feel like I've always had, overwhelm is sort of this echo behind the anxiety.

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