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 88: Stop trying so hard to be perfect!
How hard are you trying to be perfect?
Even if you don't even think you are or you know it's not possible, you might still be trying in some way that's kind of invisibly adding to your p…
Episode 87: Overwhelmed by Life Admin?!
The hidden pressures of Life Admin revealed and - hopefully - eased!
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🎙️ Welcome to Overwhelm is Optional
This podcast was cre…
Episode 86: Is procrastinating really that terrible?
Episode 86: Is procrastinating really that terrible?
Or is it just useful information?
With Neutral Noticing you get to decide.
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Yes, you get to keep that holiday feeling! Here's how.
The choice is yours - bring whatever feeling you long for in a holiday into your day-to-day existence because you can. You get to - for free (and without booking flights and driving for…
Episode 84: What the stress of launching taught me about myself and my work
🎙️ Welcome to Overwhelm is Optional
This podcast was created to help big-hearted, driven professionals break free from overwhelm and experience more clarity, ease, and joy.
But here’s t…
Episode 83: One powerful practice you can start using today - Unexpectedly Lovely
Always expect the unexpectedly lovely and you will find it.
My practice of deliberately pausing to search and find something unexpectedly lovely is designed to retrain the mind to notice…
Episode 82: Why I don't teach stress relief techniques
I don't teach stress relief techniques!
Surprised?
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Adventures in Overwhelm with Charlotte Russell Co-Founder of The Landscapers Circle
Charlotte Russell is a young and talented entrepreneur who also happens to be one of the graduates of Get Your life Back.
You can find out more about Get Your Life Back here:
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Episode 80: Why I no longer teach yoga
Because I want more for you!
www.heidimarke.co.uk/workshops
🎙️ Welcome to Overwhelm is Optional
This podcast was created to help big-hearted, driven professionals brea…
Episode 79: There's nothing wrong with you
There's nothing wrong with you and believing there is, that you are a series of problems to be solved is adding one huge project to your whack-a-mole-to-to list.
The Overwhelm is Optiona…
Episode 78: How long is your Get-Better-At-List?
Episode 78: How long is your Get-Better-At-List?
Didn’t know you had on? Me neither but it’s worth uncovering if you want to get your stress under control.
Have you registered for my 3-Pa…
Episode 77: Are you dealing with Saturday Morning Ughness?
How do you feel when you wake up on a Saturday with the weekend ahead of you?
Exciting by the freedom from work?
Or...UGH - that feeling of not being ill but not feeling quite well.
I'd lo…
Kelly Hinds of Roo-me Property shares her adventures in overwhelm
Episode 75: How I dealt with a sudden tidal wave of overwhelm
Want the fastest most effective way to turn your overwhelm into the joy, satisfaction and ease you're working so hard for? Book a Curiosity Call and discover what it's like to be coache…
Episode 74: Why journaling needs to be messy and disposable
The Messy Journaling Technique is a rebellious tool to help change your life for the better.
Want the fastest most effective way to turn …
Episode 73: No time?
No time? Tried doing a time audit but now you have no energy either?
This episode has an unusual solution for you.
Three Tiny-Huge Life-Changing Practices to start your day differently
Episode 72: Combat the endless fear and doom mongering with some ninja self distraction skills!
Are you sick of the fear and doom-mongering!? I am!
This episode is to help balance out the constant fear and doom-mongering with some ninja self-distraction skills to help you notice th…
Episode 71: Is it time to rebel against yourself?
In this week’s episode, I deliberately experiment with letting go of my strict routine for how and when I record my podcast episodes, to encourage you to see if there is anywhere in you…
Episode 70: The Tiger and the Strawberry - dealing with uncomfortable feelings
Have you heard the story about the tiger and the strawberry...in this episode I read it to you and then take you through a Neutral Noticing practice to help you sit with uncomfortable f…
Episode 69: It's time to release the fear and start living again
It’s time to heal. It’s time to celebrate. It’s time to start living again.
Media and marketing messages have always tended to be doom laden but the deliberate misuse of evidence-based p…