The Overwhelmed Brain
Get to the root of emotional issues and learn the best way to relate to yourself and others by honoring your personal boundaries and making decisions that are in alignment with what's most important to you.
This is not a "common-sense" personal growth and development show. You won't be told to think positively or create affirmations. The Overwhelmed Brain is about accessing that deeper mental and emotional strength inside you so that you can decrease or even eliminate old fears and evolve into the person you want to be.
Learn what your parents or caretakers never taught you about emotional wellness and creating strong, non-toxic bonds with others.
If you want the exact instructions that will help improve your life, you're in the right place.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 597
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Life isn't exactly fulfilling when you are holding on to upset toward someone
When you're holding on to that little bit of anger or upset about or toward someone else, maybe someone who is not even in your life anymore, it can decrease the quality of your happiness, maybe even…
00:31:03 |
Sun 20 Apr 2025
Stay in control or let it go?
Do we have to carry the weight of our past negative experiences into our future? Staying in control and letting go of it have the very same effect. I get into more detail about that in this episode a…
00:42:55 |
Sun 13 Apr 2025
The games our loved ones play
"Go ahead, have a great time! Wait, are you leaving without me? What about my needs? No, I mean go ahead and have fun. I'll be good! Hey, don't feel bad about leaving me alone, I'll be fine. Oh, you …
00:38:22 |
Sun 06 Apr 2025
What is love?
How you define love will be what you get from it. If you don't have a definition for love, you may get stuck with something that appears to be love, but is really something else altogether. If you ar…
00:53:49 |
Sun 30 Mar 2025
Never put your faith in anyone who makes you feel unworthy
People who care about you should lift you up, not kick you when you're down. If someone keeps dragging you lower, trusting their words is like giving a vampire the keys to the blood bank.
00:27:58 |
Sun 23 Mar 2025
When every argument is petty and unresolved
Arguing isn't fun, but if it's going to happen, it should at least be productive. But what if it's never productive and you never get anything resolved? That's the question I tackle today.
00:38:54 |
Sun 16 Mar 2025
The big life lessons that can change everything for the better
There are some life lessons that we have to force ourselves to go through in order to make our circumstances better. Those lessons can feel like a massive leap over a bottomless chasm. But the reward…
00:31:46 |
Sun 09 Mar 2025
Am I really the problem?
If you find that you define yourself in a negative way based on someone else's perception of you, you must listen to this episode. Is what they're saying about you really true? If you think that, we …
00:48:44 |
Sun 02 Mar 2025
Should payback for bad behavior be a relationship norm?
What are your rights in a relationship with someone who is mistreating you or acting badly? Is it okay to get back at them and reciprocate with similar or worse behavior? What's fair in relationship …
00:48:33 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Decluttering the overwhelmed brain
If you find your mind feels like an overstuffed closet, and your actual closet is also overstuffed, I'll try to help you balance the mental and physical clutter in this episode. It's a special episod…
00:40:50 |
Sun 16 Feb 2025
When empathy is used against you
Some people can be draining, especially if they play the victim after they've done bad behavior and expect you to empathize with them. Some people are very, very good at doing that. I talk about thos…
00:37:35 |
Sun 09 Feb 2025
What can keep you stuck with the same results over and over again
Our childhood coping mechanisms shape our adult relationships. Sometimes the old fears keep us from moving into new, better territory, keeping us stuck where we are.
00:47:26 |
Sun 02 Feb 2025
Washing your hands of a problem that won't go away
Some problems won't go away until you walk away from them. But walking away can be hard... sometimes impossible. And sometimes it involves sacrifice. And is walking away the only answer?
00:38:05 |
Sun 26 Jan 2025
The pressure of sex and expectations in an established relationship
Sometimes emotional and sexual expectations can be challenging to balance in a long-term relationship... but do they have to be? Or is intimacy just difficult with certain people who seem entitled to…
00:39:47 |
Sun 19 Jan 2025
Feeling like you have no choice but to submit to ungrateful, uncaring people
You know the type: They do nothing and you do everything. In this episode, I share the struggle of a woman who has a rocky relationship with her adult daughter who moved back in with her. I share a l…
01:10:20 |
Sun 12 Jan 2025
The partner who likes things as they are when you're just miserable
When you live with your romantic partner... And their relatives... And your partner doesn't seem to want that to change... What are your choices? Very hard question! I thought I'd tackle that today.
00:42:51 |
Sun 05 Jan 2025
The people who avoid you
Are you trying to reconnect with someone who’s unresponsive? Maybe they want nothing more to do with you and maybe you don't know why? And maybe this episode gives you the final step to take with oth…
00:29:21 |
Sun 29 Dec 2024
The judgments you have about others that keep you unhappy
If you’ve ever found yourself trying to change someone's habits or feeling frustrated by their behaviors, this episode might help you learn what it takes to deal with and maybe even heal with someone…
00:44:31 |
Sun 22 Dec 2024
How your coping mechanisms may be interfering with your happiness
How you cope with challenges affects... well... your whole life really! It can be helpful to know what your coping mechanisms are and where you learned them so that perhaps you can examine them and c…
00:57:15 |
Sun 15 Dec 2024
The massive, impossible, overwhelming circumstances that make life feel hopeless
Problems can add up, compound, and create a situation so impossible to get out of that there seems to be no hope. Is it total defeat or is there anything you can do?
00:45:02 |
Sun 08 Dec 2024
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