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Life presents the toughest challenges.

Every day you are faced with decisions that test your ability to express who you really

want to be in this world.

We're told to keep saying affirmations and keep thinking positively,

but what do you do when that stuff doesn't work?

Welcome to the overwhelmed brain,

where you'll learn to make decisions that are right for you so that you can create the life you want now. Hello, this is Paul Kolyani, host of the Overwhelmed Brain, the personal growth show for the critical thinker.

On this show, I'll share practical down-to-earth steps to help you improve your mood and keep you sane in this powerful journey we call

life.

I want to help you bridge the gap between your emotions and reason, causing you to discover why you do the things you do and what you can do to reach higher levels of happiness and lower levels of stress and overwhelm.

I have two quotes I'd like to read to you today and one is by Donnie Osmond and it's this.

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it.

But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die.

You will keel over and die. And the other quote is by Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking's daughter.

She says, I am a world expert on how to organize tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated

to priority and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.

I receive a lot of email asking me to talk about anxiety.

Throughout a few of my shows I've covered anxiety and panic, especially the one where I interviewed Charlie Hone who wrote the book, Play It Away, a workaholics cure for anxiety.

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