S10 EP26: Free Yourself From the Overstimulation Productivity Trap
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Do you feel overstimulated and underwhelmed at the same time? Like there’s so much coming at you, but you still feel empty somehow? Overstimulation can be like trying to nap on a trampoline in the middle of a birthday party. There are SO many ways in our somewhat comfy, modern world to become overstimulated. In today’s episode we take a look at why and how we experience overstimulation, the neuroscience, and our behaviors that feed into it. What does overstimulation have to do with a lack of motivation or creativity, feeling distracted, lonely or bored?
Let’s redefine downtime. Listen and learn to recognize when we are looking for empty calorie dopamine hits and how to self-regulate. Leave with tips on how to find real connections that align with your core values and feel more balanced in this modern world.
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(00:00:00) Introduction: feeling overstimulated at the end of summer.
(00:03:22) What using a device on a “break” or downtown does to your brain.
(00:06:19) Multitasking is an overstimulation trap.
(00:10:53) What to do when you are feeling lonely instead of looking to the internet.
(00:18:43) How to recognize behaviors in yourself that are looking for dopamine hits.
(00:22:46) Anxiety, depression, ADHD and environmental ADHD.
(00:29:00) What dopamine is, and why getting it from clicking doesn’t really fuel your confidence or enable you to do hard things.
(00:37:00) How self-regulation now can affect your future, addiction, the need for balance, and the continuous cycle of stress.
(00:45:10) Get yourself in check. Set an example. Your kids are watching.
(00:48:25) 10K context switches while scrolling IG or TikTok and what that does to your brain and behavior.
(00:53:10) A look at online relationships, validation, being self-absorbed and how to find real connection.
(00:57:53) Suggestions and habits that are good for your brain and balance in an overstimulated modern world.
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| 0:00.0 | When you're truly overstimulated, doing a simple thing, like throwing in a load of laundry |
| 0:05.3 | becomes this giant thing. I want to talk about if you see any of these behaviors in yourself, |
| 0:13.2 | why these are so problematic for us in the long run and why they are hurting our ability to do life and why they're hurting our brain's ability |
| 0:24.0 | to be the productive, motivated, creative, that we want it to be. Compassionate person that we want to be. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. I'm Kelsey. |
| 0:43.8 | Hi guys. I'm Rachel. Welcome back. We are so oversimulated this week. |
| 0:52.9 | We certainly are. I think a lot of, I honestly, I think of a lot of moms or parents at the end of the summer, no matter where you are in this journey, are feeling this back, like, are they going back yet? Every parent that I've talked to, it was like right at this like last couple weeks. |
| 1:14.5 | Like they've just like made it strong through the summer. |
| 1:16.9 | And then the last couple weeks, they're like, and I've had enough. |
| 1:20.4 | It's tough out there. |
| 1:22.7 | I mean, they'd be, they'd be running rampant. |
| 1:26.5 | They're feral. |
| 1:27.5 | They're hungry. They're feral. They're hungry. |
| 1:29.6 | They wreck your stuff. |
| 1:33.1 | And it's tough times. |
| 1:36.1 | Just me? |
| 1:37.4 | They just keep eating. |
| 1:40.3 | It's a non-stop cycle of snack meal, snack meal. |
| 1:47.6 | They drink all your water. |
| 1:49.8 | It's, I mean, not to be stingy with the water and stuff, but like there's half drink water tumblers all over my house. |
| 2:00.2 | It's just, they're so feral. |
| 2:03.4 | I need, you need a break. |
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