Hello and welcome to the Karma You podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I'm a coach, a

hypnototherapist, and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. And this podcast is all

about helping you to become your calmest, happiest and most confident self. Hello, hello,

hello. Welcome. Thank you so much for joining me

today. It is just me this week with a solo episode. I'm going to be talking about overwhelm,

overwhelm, which I'm pretty sure the majority of humans in the Western world can relate to. I was thinking about this earlier

today, how different our lives are now compared to how they were when we were evolving. Yes,

times were hard when we lived in caves in lots of different ways, but we didn't have days that

were full of a million to-do lists, deadlines,

having to be places at a certain time, having so many demands on us. Knowing what everyone in the

world is up to 24-7, there are a lot of pressures that we did not evolve to deal with.

And feeling overwhelmed almost seems like, you know, of course we feel overwhelmed.

It'd be weird if we didn't feel overwhelmed with the lives that we lead.

Not to mention all the things that coronavirus has, you know, put on our plates.

And 2020 in general, so one of my intentions for the coming year is to work on

finding ways to create more ease and calmness and flow and a sense that things are taking

care of themselves rather than the sense of overwhelm that I could definitely

relate to that we're juggling a million things. And if we pause for a moment, things will just

come crashing down around us. So signs of overwhelm might be that you are overthinking things a lot

and your mind is always busy. You've got so much on your plate that you can't

really, or it seems like you can't switch off. It might be that you're snapping with your partner

and you're short with the people that you love because you feel under so much pressure.

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