Ep #377: The Story of Overwhelm
Feminist Wellness
Béa Victoria Albina
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
#377: What if saying “I’m overwhelmed” is sometimes about more than just naming your exhaustion? If you’ve been living in chronic overdrive, collapsing under endless demands, or feeling trapped between doing too much and shutting down completely, this episode invites you to look beneath the surface of overwhelm itself.
In this episode, I unpack how overwhelm is not only a real nervous system state, but can also become a protective story that shields us from the vulnerability of directly claiming our limits, needs, and boundaries. I explore how perfectionism, emotional outsourcing, and fear of being perceived as selfish can keep us performing overwhelm instead of consciously choosing what truly aligns with our capacity.
Join me today to learn how overwhelm can become a hidden strategy for preserving innocence and avoiding discomfort, why this pattern disconnects you from your real needs, and how to start questioning the deeper story beneath your overwhelm.
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| 1:03.3 | This is Feminist Wellness, and I'm your host, nurse practitioner, somatics, and nervous system nerd, and life coach, Bea Victoria Albina. |
| 1:10.5 | I'll show you how to get unstuck, drop the anxiety, perfectionism, and codependency, so you can live from your beautiful heart. Welcome, my love. Let's get |
| 1:12.2 | started. Hello, hello, my love. I hope this finds you doing so well. So today I want to start |
| 1:22.8 | with something that might land a little like sideways at first. Have you ever considered that when you're saying, |
| 1:29.0 | I'm so overwhelmed? And you mean it, like you really mean it, you're overwhelmed. You might not |
| 1:35.7 | just be stating the facts. Maybe, just maybe, underneath that proclamation, something else is |
| 1:42.2 | happening. That I'm so overwhelmed might be doing double duty, naming a feeling |
| 1:48.5 | and at the very same time, perchance shielding you from having to look any deeper. I know, I know. |
| 1:56.8 | Stay with me. And just by the way, I'm not here to BS your nervous system or like your |
| 2:01.1 | experience of life. Overwhelm is real. It lives in the body in ways that are physiologically, |
| 2:06.4 | measurably, uncomfortable. You know that cocktail, like the racing thoughts, the jaw that will |
| 2:12.7 | not uncunch, no matter how many times you notice it, the compulsive need to send just one more email before you can |
| 2:18.7 | even think about stopping. All of that mixed with that like, well, it's like a very particular |
| 2:23.9 | dorsal vagal-vagle shutdown flavor, like the fog, the like blankness, the bone deep fatigue, the like, |
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