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.
Psychology
Education
Health
Anxiety
Self-Improvement
Philosophy
Success
Health & Fitness
Relationships
Development
Mental Health
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 598
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Strength in vulnerability - What if divorce is a mistake? - Never happy without someone else in my life
Vulnerability is the final step into your strength. Your emotional core contains all of your emotions, your shame, fear, guilt embarrassments, sadness and also your joy, happiness, peace and lot of o…
01:18:56 |
Sun 31 Jul 2016
The choice to confront - Release the pressure of negativity - can long distance love work
Confronting friends, family, the boss, the spouse, or any other dangerous people ;) can cause anxiety, fear and panic... but why? Why do we fear expressing what we want to anyone in our lives? If you…
01:06:25 |
Sun 17 Jul 2016
When people don't like you - Is it time to get a divorce - Some family isn't healthy to keep
Not everyone is going to like what you bring to the table. Sometimes people have high expectations of you and you don't deliver causing them to have a critical view of you. Is this your fault or the …
01:15:56 |
Sun 10 Jul 2016
The secrets that we keep - Feeling overexposed and hollow inside - Lonely when you are not alone
Where do you go when you have a secret that you believe someone else needs to know? Are you loyal to the secret teller? Do you tell the person who should know the secret? It's a question to ponder, w…
01:02:51 |
Sun 10 Jul 2016
Getting control back - The small door out of depression - The unforever soulmate - Emotionally disconnected partners
Are you at a job that feels like you are being dominated or controlled? Is there a way out of this without quitting? There may be. I get a response from a listener who wrote before who took my advice…
01:25:38 |
Sun 03 Jul 2016
You still have to do the work - Protecting your kids from dysfunction - The chain of thoughts
All this personal growth work is great and all, but you have to actually do the work in order for your life to get better. The main reason is because you need feedback from your environment. You test…
00:45:50 |
Sat 18 Jun 2016
Taking the opposite advice - I feel unlovable and unwanted
Anxiety, anger, sadness and other emotional advice on the internet seems to be the same where ever you look: Think positively, breathe, count to 10, etc. I'm generalizing of course, but many times, i…
01:50:05 |
Sun 12 Jun 2016
Learning your boundaries - Utilizing anger in a healthy way - Accepting the limitations of others
Anger can rise in you because of a violation of your personal boundaries, but do you even know what your boundaries are? Sometimes we feel anger and we aren't even sure why. It's a good time to learn…
01:21:09 |
Sun 05 Jun 2016
Acting from Integrity - Balancing personal growth with relationship growth - Knowing when you are out of love - Making the right choices
A listener calls me out and tells me, "You couldn't take a couple minutes to answer me personally?" I read her message on the air and respond to it. I always do my best to act from a place of integri…
01:30:06 |
Sun 29 May 2016
The Kids Episode - For Kids And The Kid In You
Kids get overwhelmed brains too. After hearing from a few kids that listen to the show, I decided to dedicate an episode talking about the hardships that kids face. From school and getting made fun o…
01:32:09 |
Sun 22 May 2016
Healing from New Age Thinking - The fears in honoring yourself - The stolen childhood of Adult Children of Alcoholics
Are you annoyed by affirmations? It's how I start off every show. I take a few minutes to explain why that is. Also I talk about positive thinking and bridging the gap between emotions and reason. Ne…
01:30:43 |
Sun 15 May 2016
The relationship you have with yourself - Wanting the anxiety to go away - Enabling abusive people
When we talk to ourselves, we really are communicating with another part of ourselves, a deeper subconscious part that has within it a deeper understanding of what really motivates us in life. Someti…
01:22:56 |
Sun 08 May 2016
The Process of Self-Sabotage - You don't have to forgive everyone - Anxiety all the time
Why do we fall off course so easily? When you prioritize tasks
that take your time away from the things you want to accomplish,
you fall back farther and farther until you are no longer making
progre…
01:22:58 |
Sun 01 May 2016
Codependency: The Subtle Erosion of Love and Connection
Codependence is when two or more people fulfill a need for each other that strengthens a dysfunction between them. You usually see this kind of thing between a helper / people-pleaser and a drug addi…
00:53:21 |
Sun 24 Apr 2016
Depending on Abusive People - When Physical Pain Will Not End - Should You Take Someone Who Desperately Wants You
Being in abusive relationship of any kind, especially where you have a dependency on the abuser for one reason or another leaves you in a tough spot. Can you leave and still be okay, or are you so de…
01:09:25 |
Sun 24 Apr 2016
How your needs drive your behavior and motivation
Are all of your needs met? Do you know why you make the decisions you do? Our needs motivate our behavior. If you respond to life's events from a low level of survival, it'll be more difficult to suc…
00:40:00 |
Sun 24 Apr 2016
You Are Not Alone in Your Challenges But May Feel Alone in Your Relationship
Have you ever felt alone in your struggles? It's hard to imagine anyone else dealing with the same thing. Yet, there are many. And I receive a lot of messages from people that reinforce that. How doe…
01:09:32 |
Sun 17 Apr 2016
Resolving Emotions Mindfully - I'm Not Cheating So Whats The Big Deal
I watched a recent Ted Talk with Dr. Judson Brewer who teaches mindfulness to cure addictions. I was surprised to learn that I actually did the process he talks about to cure my addiction to sugar ma…
01:11:10 |
Sun 03 Apr 2016
Keep Showing Up and Bringing Value - Dealing With The Pain of Lost Love and Starting the Healing
I got nervous when I was invited to speak on a world record breaking authority summit... but I did it anyway. But why was I nervous?
I host a show that thousands listen to every week, so why is it di…
01:12:39 |
Sun 27 Mar 2016
Kids Humiliating Kids - My Boss is Irrational - Enablers Give Their Dependents a Free Ride - The Meaning of Spirituality
It's an Ask Paul marathon! First, I'll talk about how bullies love when you react negatively and what to do to squash the energy behind their bullying. This is from a letter from a kid who got bullie…
01:08:32 |
Sun 20 Mar 2016
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