when we feel awash with overwhelm and we grew up in overwhelming dynamics, we simplify.

For many years, when I had a brick-and-mortar traditional therapy office,

I had one word on a little plaque in my office, and it was simplify.

Simply, I can do the next right thing.

Then I can do the next right thing. It's helped me to

accept that multitasking, this energy of putting out multiple fires all at once, makes me feel

frantic, ungrounded, especially when I'm allowing this type of overwhelm to wash over me for what,

a typical day? The same old, same old,

not even for an outlier situation? Overwhelm is not a command. You're not required to be overwhelmed

based on the number of things your system says needs doing. Overwhelm is an invitation. Every

overwhelm invitation can be declined. You have the power to accept or reject those invitations. Choose wisely because your inner child is watching. He or she's also feeling.

Hello, welcome to the show. This is Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful. I'm your host,

Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist. And on today's episode, we're discussing

intentions and affirmations for dealing with overwhelm.

We really do live in overwhelming times, y'all.

And highly sensitive nervous systems often pick up far more than their fair share of overwhelm, of energy, of minutiae and things to do.

We are inundated all day long constantly.

In today's episode, I want to offer you a series of affirmations,

of ideas, of intentions and perspectives that help us step out of the rut, out of the groove

of overwhelm and overthinking, because that's what happens. These patterns set up in us,

and the more that that groove

strengthens, the harder it is to get out of. If today's episode speaks to you, you may want to

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