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Today, we're going to be talking about being overwhelmed,

how you're overwhelmed, why you're overwhelmed, and how to actually overcome the overwhelm that

you feel. And let's be real, like with all of the things that happen nowadays, it's very

easy to get overwhelmed. Like, our lives move faster than ever before. There's no humans that have ever had their lives move

as fast as ours do. Now, I'm sure that our ancestors' lives were way more stressful. But as far as, like,

the constant movement, the constant stimuli, all of the stuff that's going on, notifications all day,

work demand, social pressures, children,

all of those things. We rarely unplug it all. We have all of this technology. It's constantly

just sending stuff to us on the phone. We have phones. We have computers. We have TVs. We have

people. We have, you know, like I said, children, we have work, we have all of this.

And it's very common that if we're not taking a step back, getting out of our own heads,

all of that, then we can become very overwhelmed. And overwhelm is actually, too much of it,

is very terrible for your body. You know, overwhelm, activates your body stress response.

So, which means that your body actually reacts as if your life is in danger. And so what it'll do

is it will flood your body with cortisol, with adrenaline, which is helpful for the short term

if you have a tiger rushing after you, but it's damaging

when it's constantly elevated and all of this chronic stress and overwhelm can lead to really

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