Hello again, beautiful beings of light, and welcome back to another Expand podcast with

yours truly, Elizabeth April. Today, I want to talk about trauma and I want to talk about being the oversaturated sponge. Now I have dedicated a

whole episode to the oversaturated sponge but I definitely felt called to bring this up again

and to maybe remind you of this concept. So let's go ahead and just dive right in

and get started there. So the oversaturated sponge syndrome is something that I created

many years ago when I started to realize that a lot of people have the same problems.

And no matter what form that problem takes, it all comes down to the same thing.

You have taken on too much.

You haven't released enough. And you have become the oversaturated sponge.

Now, picture this for a moment. Picture a sponge. Picture a really big, juicy, dried-up sponge.

And you fill it with water. And it expands and expands and expands

until the point where it's so saturated, one drop in causes a drop to fall out. And at an energetic

level, this is the place that we all get to. We get to a

position in our life where we haven't done the healing. We haven't gone deep enough. And so every new

little challenge that arises in your life becomes a really big deal.

So how do you know that you are the oversaturated sponge? How do you know that you have this work to do?

The best way to tell is through your trigger response. Are you triggered for every little

thing these days? Or are you pretty chill? Are you pretty even keel? Do you let things come and go

easily? Or do you let things really bother you? And they sit there and they ruminate until you just

can't think about it anymore. Where is your reaction response? Right now in your life,

if you're at a place where everything makes you react, where you feel a lot of frustration,

anger, sadness, there's an emotional breakdown every other day of the week.

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