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The Overwhelmed Brain

8 myths about life and relationships

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Are the beliefs and values that guide your life and relationships truly serving you? There are many myths that, if we don't question them, might be holding us back from happiness and fulfillment.

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0:00.0

These are my personal opinions. Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

0:11.5

All right. I hope this episode is interesting to you. It's interesting to me. I like it. I like the subject. The subject is, let me pull up my notes here, because what am I

0:24.7

calling it? I'm calling it the eight myths of life and relationships. I think as I grew up,

0:32.6

as I was a teenager and went into my 20s and my 30s and just kept going through the years of life and relationships,

0:40.4

I believed certain things.

0:43.0

Certain values were instilled in me or I developed certain philosophies and certain beliefs that came along that I adopted.

0:52.6

And I realized that, you know, later on in life, when I became

0:56.6

wiser in some ways, I learned that not all of this is true. Everything that we learn isn't

1:03.3

always true. And it can actually work against us if we're using old beliefs, old

1:09.3

philosophies, dysfunctional beliefs, dysfunctional, I don't want to say

1:13.4

dysfunctional values, but unhealthy values or unproductive, unresourceful values that we believe we

1:21.0

should value, but it actually puts us in a worse place in our hearts and our minds and we walk around feeling more stressed

1:29.6

and overwhelmed and when we don't address these things and we just keep them in our system

1:36.2

in our thoughts when we keep doing what we always do what do we get we get what we always get

1:42.7

and moving forward that may or may not be good if you

1:46.9

are getting things that you don't like if you are having outcomes that don't work for you that don't

1:51.6

serve you and that don't make you happy then you might stay where you are for the rest of your life

1:58.7

and that can happen when you don't address your beliefs,

2:03.8

your values, your personal boundaries, your relationships, the place you work, how you show up in life,

2:12.7

how you show up to other people, how you interact, how you communicate, because we have a foundation, a structure

2:18.7

that we operate from. And then when we live our lives based on that foundation or structure or

2:23.7

set of rules or guidelines or boundaries, we might actually be causing our own misery. And so I

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