Calmly Coping

Feeling buried under a mountain of tasks and deadlines? Struggling to catch your breath in the relentless whirlwind of work demands? If you're feeling overwhelmed with work, you're not alone. In this…

Do you feel like your life revolves entirely around your career? Do you find yourself tirelessly working towards success, yet struggle to define who you are outside of your job? If you're nodding alo…

In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about why high-functioning anxiety is a breeding ground for burnout, and what you can do about it. If you struggle with high-functioning anxiety and are feelin…

Have you been procrastinating going to therapy? Maybe you are in a place where you’re struggling: you’re burnt-out, overwhelmed, anxious, depressed, or all of the above… and you know therapy might he…

Have you ever found yourself caught in a cycle of taking out your stress and frustration on the ones you love? Maybe you're familiar with the guilt that follows, yet the pattern seems challenging to …

As an entrepreneur who works from home, it is very important for me to maintain certain boundaries in order to protect my time, energy, mental health, and relationships and so I can put my best into …

We all know how important sleep is to help us function better in our daily lives: to have improved focus, energy, and motivation. But did you know that sleep is also incredibly important for your men…

High-functioning anxiety isn’t always just incessant overthinking or sleepless nights; sometimes, it shows up as the constant need to prove your worth, the subtle self-comparisons, or the relentless …

When you’re ambitious, you can find yourself caught in a perpetual cycle of striving for more, pushing boundaries, and yet, despite all accomplishments, wrestling with a nagging feeling of inadequacy…

Everybody puts pressure on themselves at one time or another. Pressure to be a better person, be healthier, do more work, be a better wife, husband, parent, the list goes on. But how much of this pre…

Those with high-functioning anxiety wear a mask of calm, perfectionism, success, and busyness on the outside to shroud the torrent of overthinking, self-doubt, overanalyzing, fear of failure, and ins…

Perfectionism can be a double-edged sword: on the one hand, your high expectations and attention to detail can result in high quality work that is admired by others; on the other hand, your constant …

“I’ll rest when I finish this project… when I’m done with work for the day… when I’ve checked everything off my to-do list…” Sound familiar? You might have learned to believe that you need to EARN re…

Hustle culture. “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” The expectation to work all hours of the day now that we can access work from anywhere. These are just a few things that have contributed to declines in me…

Are you experiencing the incessant internal monologue of self-doubt? It’s those negative thoughts that feed off of your insecurities and make you feel as though you can never do anything good or righ…

Performance anxiety: it’s the psychological and physical nervousness that occurs before and during a performance of any kind that can make it more challenging to focus, do your best, and feel confide…

In our hyper-productive culture, it can be incredibly easy to confuse being burnt out for laziness, because they can feel like one and the same. The problem is… it’s okay and necessary to be lazy eve…

You may be familiar with the fear of failure, but have you ever considered that you could be afraid of success? You might struggle with the fear of success, or "achievemephobia”, if you worry about t…

This episode is a calming guided meditation for overachievers. This simple 6-minute exercise can be done in any location where you feel safe to close your eyes and be undisturbed for about 6 minutes.…

Are you the kind of type A, organized person who loves your to-do lists? And yet you sometimes find yourself also resenting your to-do list, feeling overwhelmed and controlled by it, and as though yo…