Managing Cognitive Overload, How to Cope with Mental Overwhelm

This Changes Everything with Sarah Rice

Sarah Rice - Wave Podcast Network

Self Improvement, Education, Religion & Spirituality, The Challenge, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Sarah Rice, Mental Health

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It's the perfect time of year to discuss mental overwhelm. Thanksgiving, Christmas preparation, family gatherings, work, social media, it all adds up. So it's good to be aware, and great to learn how to recognize overwhelm, and how to manage it. It's so important to step back and take inventory of what is going on, and how to avoid overload.

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0:00.0	Hello friends and welcome once again to everybody's favorite therapy theme podcast. I'm your host Sarah
0:05.3	and today we're going to be talking about something that has been showing up everywhere. I'm telling
0:10.9	you this is showing up in my own life. It's showing up in sessions with clients. It's shown up in
0:16.4	conversations with the friends who normally look like they have it all together on paper.
0:21.1	And anytime a theme pops up in a whole bunch of places at once, it always lets me know that
0:27.2	this isn't random and it's not just a me problem or a them problem.
0:31.9	It seems like it's something that we're all dealing with, all quietly going through at the
0:36.1	same time.
0:37.3	And that lets me know it would be a perfect conversation topic for this podcast.
0:42.3	So we are going to talk about cognitive load.
0:45.8	What the heck is cognitive load?
0:47.2	Well, I know you guys are all experiencing this or have experienced this at some point.
0:52.6	It's basically the mental version of having like a million tabs open up on your computer
0:59.2	while you're also trying to, I don't know, find one thing on your hard drive and then make dinner
1:07.6	and everything else is going on in the background, right?
1:10.9	There's so much on our mind.
1:13.5	There's so much on our plate.
1:15.0	And it seems like more things keep getting added and we're all kind of drowning.
1:20.4	So this is what we're talking about today.
1:23.5	And this is the perfect season for it, right?
1:25.5	I know we've recently had Thanksgiving, but we've got other holidays coming up.
1:30.0	We've got the new year coming up.
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