Overwhelm is Optional
- This is the podcast for big-hearted, highly driven professionals who want their life back.
- Each week, we explore ways to gently rebel against the idea that overwhelm and exhaustion are just the price you pay for success. You don’t have to push through—it’s time to work with ease, reclaim your energy, and create the life you want.
- 💡 Meet Heidi Marke
I’m Heidi, a Coach, Teacher, Podcaster, and Author. Having painfully burned out—losing my career, confidence, health, and financial stability—I discovered a better way. Now, I quietly lead The Gentle Rebellion, helping you to:- Stop pushing through overwhelm.
- Redefine success on your own terms.
- Reclaim your time, energy, and life.
Thank you to purpleplanet.com for the music.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 228
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 8: Drop the judgement
How much are you judging yourself?
Your mind can be pretty judgy which can really add to your overwhelm. Catching the mind in its miserable judgy act - becoming aware of how often you ar…
Episode 7: Stopping the shoulds
Stopping the shoulds.
Shoulds add heavily to your overwhelm. But what can you do about them?
You want to keep everyone around you happy, you want to be successful and you want to behave w…
Episode 6: How to start you day out of overwhelm
How you start your day can make a huge difference in how your day feels.
This short episode helps you start your day without overwhelm.
Includes my tuning-in method to get you out of your…
Episode 5: The benefits of tuning in to your body
Live the life you always meant to but keep getting distracted from. Tune into your body and take a break from your overwhelmed mind.
This episode gives you an in-depth introduction to my…
Episode 4: Using your experience of lockdown to reduce overwhelm
A shorter episode to focus on how to use the continued experience of lockdown to gather information on what creates and adds to overwhelm for you personally, and also a chance to practi…
Episode 3: A special very short episode for overwhelmed parents in homeschooling lockdown
Episode 3: A special very short episode for overwhelmed parents in homeschooling lockdown (recorded March 28th 2020)
If after one week of homeschooling you are feeling in need of some ea…
Episode 2: How can we use lockdown to reduce overwhelm?
A special lockdown episode exploring how we can reduce overwhelm at this particularly overwhelming time. So if you’re feeling even more overwhelmed than usual because you don’t know how…
Episode 1: Overwhelm is Optional
How does the title Overwhelm is Optional make you feel? Annoyed (why did nobody tell me!) hopeful (please tell me how it is optional) relieved (someone might understand what I'm going t…