805 Overwhelmed by Everything? Here's Your Psychological Survival Kit
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
I've been hearing from so many of you that you're feeling overwhelmed by what's happening in the world right now. And if you are, you're normal. Because it is overwhelming.
We were not designed to be in this hyper-aroused nervous system state for as long as we've been. Our bodies aren't meant for it. Our minds aren't meant for it. And yet here we are, living in a 24-hour bad news cycle that literally never ends.
You know, it didn't used to be this way. There was a time when the nightly news was one person reporting on the day's events without editorializing. Now it's a circus of talking heads and pundits and narratives coming at you from every direction. And if you're trying to be a well-informed, good global citizen without being buried under a tidal wave of bad news, that's a really hard line to walk.
If you're feeling overwhelmed, hopeless, anxious, or paralyzed, this one is for you. And you're not alone. I created a free guide including a guided meditation called One Love to go along with this post. You can grab it at terricole.com/guide.
There are things you can do to keep your mental, physical, and emotional health intact right now. None of them cost money. Most of them are about changing your mind about what you're allowed to give yourself. So here's my psychological survival kit.
Read the show notes for today's episode at terricole.com/805
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole show. |
| 0:05.8 | I want to start with a couple of questions. |
| 0:08.6 | Have you been feeling out of sorts? |
| 0:11.3 | Have you been feeling anxious? |
| 0:14.0 | Are you exhausted? |
| 0:16.4 | Anybody? |
| 0:17.3 | Because from the emails that I've been getting from you, the answer is yes, yes, and yes. |
| 0:23.1 | So I decided to create this episode, which is basically a psychological survival kit for the shit show that we're living through. |
| 0:33.1 | That's what this episode is going to be about. |
| 0:35.8 | Sort of my most accessible tips. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm putting them all in a guide for you. |
| 0:41.8 | So you can go to terrycol.com forward slash guide because there's a bunch of links that I'm sharing with some energy work, a free guided meditation that I have for you. |
| 0:50.5 | I really want this to be a one-stop shop, this episode of the Terry Cole show, for you to |
| 0:57.4 | take care of yourself. Prioritize self-care, even though there is all of this unrest and insecurity and instability, especially in this country, in what's happening. |
| 1:17.5 | But let's keep it local for this conversation, for what we're going to be talking about |
| 1:21.7 | in today's episode, we're going to be keeping it local so that there are things that you can actually do because |
| 1:29.9 | we have to be a part of the solution. |
| 1:32.6 | And just watching from the sidelines and feeling helpless is really bad for your mental health. |
| 1:40.3 | So we don't want to do that. |
| 1:42.4 | We want to do what we can. but the only way that we will have the |
| 1:46.3 | wherewithal to do anything is by upping our self-care and taking care of our nervous system. |
| 1:53.0 | Okay, so before I get into today's episode, I just want to say, wow, thanks for hanging out with me. |
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