Are you tired of that same old rehashed personal growth advice that all seems to boil down to?

Think positively and all your problems will go away.

If affirmations feel like lies and positive thinking feels like denial,

then I want you to get ready.

The overwhelmed brain is here to help you create the life you want now. Hello, this is Paul Kolyani, host of the overwhelmed brain, the personal growth show for the critical thinker.

Every week I discuss practical down-to-earth steps to help you improve your mood, your

sanity, your relationships, and almost everything else in your life.

We'll talk about why we do the things we do and what we can do to reach higher levels of

happiness and lower levels of stress and overwhelm. My goal is to help you step into your

power with every episode and do whatever it takes to help you discover the resources

you need to create the life you want. I wanted to lighten up a bit this week because last

week's episode of infidelity simply drained me. The reason it drained me is because

when I talk about healing or clearing the obstacles to happiness,

I often have to do what I call try it on.

In other words, in last week's episode, I tried on what it's like to be cheated on.

I imagined it happening to me in order to figure out how to get out of those bad feelings that can come over someone who's been cheated on.

I try on scenarios and emotions and all kinds of hard stuff just to figure out if there's a way out. I don't have to try on depression

because I already know what that's like. I don't have to try on what it's like to be jealous

or in a co-dependent relationship because I've been there and done that.

But I do often try things on when I don't have an answer to something.

So last week I tried on infidelity from both sides, I imagine what it would be like to be

the cheater and then the victim, and then regret what I did if I cheated, and then not regret it. I tried on many sides from

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