Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Tully here, and today I want to talk about how to opt out of overwhelm.

This is going to be just one of a couple of episodes around this topic. Today, we're just going to

focus in on how to opt into really unplugging and disconnecting in a healthy way to avoid the

overwhelm of being basically overstimulated. And then we're also going to talk about in coming

episodes, how to opt out of overwhelm in relationships, how to opt into overwhelm with just general stress on the daily.

So stay tuned for that.

In the coming weeks and the next month or so, there's going to be a part two and a part three.

But today I want to focus on how to opt out of overstimulation and

overwhelm in that sense. This whole week we've been talking about decentering struggle.

What would it be like if you could overcome, how you center joy in your life. And I talked about

the power of routines in helping me get on the path

to having a much more joyful and happier life. And so I want to focus on the concept of

unplugging, how to opt into unplugging and disconnecting in the right way from what's going on in the world around.

And we're going to get into talking about how routines fit into that.

But the reason why I want to talk about this in an episode is because if you're like me,

we just spend our entire days completely overstimulated. I am constantly

multitasking, though I know that it's not hopeful and I don't actually get things done better.

And the science tells me that's not a good look. More on that later too. But I just am constantly either like on my

phone, in a phone conversation, watching a video, responding to an email, looking at my calendar,

daydreaming about what I've forgotten or didn't accomplish yet. There is just so much

coming at me at all times. So much so that I find unplugging difficult. Like even when I think

about the things that I do that I consider, you know, relaxing, I still find myself wanting to reach for like phone or, you know, relaxing, I still find myself wanting to reach for like phone or call someone

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