Welcome to episode 189 of Live Happy Now.

This is your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us today to bring in the new year.

We're kicking off 2019 with a topic that most of us can relate to.

If you've been feeling overwhelmed lately, you're going to love what we're talking about today.

Dr. Samantha Brody is author of the book Overcoming Overwhelm

and also founder of the Evergreen Natural Health Center in Portland, Oregon. Samantha sat down to talk

with Live Happy editor Chris Libby about why we're feeling so overwhelmed these days and what we can do

about it. Thank you for joining us today. I know you're busy and thank you for taking the time.

Oh, it's absolutely my pleasure. I'm very excited to be here. Well, I'm excited to talk about this topic because I think

this is a topic that a lot of people deal with, but they don't necessarily know what they're

dealing with. In your new book, you overcoming overwhelm, you outline a new understanding of what

it means to be overwhelmed in today's world. Can you explain

the difference of what being overwhelmed is and why it's different from just regular stress?

Yeah, absolutely. So overwhelm and stress are incredibly tightly woven insofar as it it's very

hard to pull them apart, although they're not the same thing. So I think about stress as

being the response that we have to overwhelm. And overwhelm is an accumulation of the stresses

we have in our lives and how we respond to it in a psychological way, in a physiological way,

in an emotional way, kind of across the board.

So I think about overwhelm as being not just the big things that impact us, but the accumulation

of the big, the small, the minutia that we might not even realize are impacting our overall

state and increasing our stress load.

So why do you think stress management techniques are just,

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