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solution, has ceased production of new episodes. But unfuck your brain is rockin' and rollin'.

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You're listening to The Lawyer's Stress Solution. The only podcast that teaches you cognitive

science-based techniques specifically created for lawyers. Learn how to manage your lawyer brain

and conquer the stress, anxiety, and overwhelm of lawyer life. Here's your host,

former lawyer and certified master coach, Kara Loan-Thyles.

Hello my lawyer friends. Today's podcast is going to be a short one because I want to talk about

overwhelm and I want this to be short enough so that you can listen to it anytime you're feeling

overwhelmed and you need a little bit of a boost to get yourself together to calm the anxiety

and to be able to move forward with your day. Most of my clients experience overwhelm. I definitely

experienced overwhelm a ton when I was a lawyer. When I was litigating as an academic,

when I was in policy work, really in every job. I still occasionally experience overwhelm.

Right, negative feelings are a part of life and we're all on the lifelong path to enlightenment.

So it still happens to me, but so much less frequently than it used to. And that's because I figured

out what actually causes overwhelm. So there are a lot of things that we think cause overwhelm.

Right, our workload, the number one thing most of my clients cite, there's just too much work and

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