Ep 241: Easy Does it: Collecting self in times of overwhelm

Help Me Be Me

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Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

‘Easy does it’ is a pretty great Alanon slogan, best used in times of stress or overwhelm when we find ourselves on the backfoot or grasping for control. What is most challenging about moving through any state of disaster (natural or personal) is the lack of ability to think– often when we are being faced with so much information, so quickly. ‘Easy does it’ is a path back to feeling grounded and safe in self. If you are suffering right now – from the loss of your home or from the loss of a partner or something else, this is a reminder that we can only take on as much as we can handle and sometimes the best thing we can do is slow down and take some of the pressure off of ourselves so we can return to the situation from a more resourced position. When we get into that energy of forcing solutions, that’s a little flag reminding us we need to come home to our breathing and be extra kind and gentle with ourselves. We may not be able to solve every problem in the time we wish to solve it in and some problems are not ours to solve. This episode started as a reflection for the new year and it has evolved into something more nurturing. I and so many I love have been affected by the wildfires in California, it has been difficult to focus, but I am posting this in the hopes that it soothes someone who needs soothing. Sending love to anyone suffering right now. You are in my prayers. Xo Support this week’s sponsors: BetterHelp Become the author of your story, with BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/helpmebeme today to get 10% off your first month. AG1 AG1 is offering new subscribers a FREE $76 gift when you sign up. You’ll get a Welcome Kit, a bottle of D3K2 AND 5 free travel packs in your first box. Make sure to check out DrinkAG1.com/HELPMEBEME to get this offer! Start your new year on a healthier note. And if you’re looking to do some good for a person you don’t know, in need: GoFundMe CA Wildfire Relief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Help Me be Me. I'm your host, Sarah May Bates. I'm a writer, director, mom, and a breakup coach with an MAMFT. And this podcast is kind of like a personal relationship in that I talk to you like you're my friend. I provide tools to help you feel more grounded, empowered, inspired, and most of all, help you see yourself.
0:25.3	This is aimed at creating more harmony and happiness in the relationship you have with you,
0:29.5	so you can better guide your life and also be better to those you love.
0:31.8	Take what helps and leave the rest.
0:34.2	This is not a diagnosis for treatment.
0:38.3	If you're really struggling, call your local emergency services.
0:49.3	Hi friends, it's Help Me Be Me, and this is an episode I'm calling Easy Does It. It's for collecting self in times of overwhelm. If you are in California, you are aware that there are
0:59.3	many, many fires happening right now. If you're anywhere in the world, you're probably aware of that.
1:04.9	I am in California, and I grew up in the Palisades, which has been decimated by wildfires.
1:12.0	And this is an episode I wrote in response to that because it's something that's still ongoing.
1:16.7	It's still active.
1:18.2	A lot of loved ones.
1:20.6	Still going through a lot of stress over the risk of losing more.
1:33.1	And I started this episode as something completely different and now it's evolved into something that's really about nurturing and licking wounds.
1:38.7	And I will say as a creator, it's very hard to put something out there right now because
1:42.7	everything feels like not
1:45.5	enough everything feels a little trite but as with all of my episodes excuse me as with all my
1:52.1	episodes i have uh the same caveat which is take what helps and leave the rest because as a a self
2:00.0	helper you got to help that's whatper, you got to help. That's what you do. You got to try
2:03.9	something. So this is an episode that's for times of stress or overwhelm of any kind. I think
2:11.8	what is most challenging about moving through a state of disaster in your life is our lack of ability to think.
2:19.6	When we have so much information that we're trying to ingest so quickly,
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