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Anxiety, depression, fears, obsession, panic, or any relationship, marriage or family issues, this show will help you achieve less stress and more happiness. Become empowered and honor yourself so that you can make decisions that are right for you. Mindfulness, compassion and being in the present moment are only components of a bigger picture. Live authentically and strengthen your emotional intelligence to avoid emotional abuse. Get to the root of emotional issues with solid relationship advice and personal help. If affirmations don't work and you're tired of being told to "think positively!", start listening to this show for a better life.
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Do you make small compromises with the people you love so that they will like or love you more? There are two ways to compromise: One has attached resentments, the other doesn’t. I’ll give you one guess which method of compromise works better for the relationships in your life. Transcript follows I’m going to start […]
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Do you value what your partner values? If not, you may be in for a rude awakening when they suddenly get upset with you for seemingly no reason. What’s important to you may not be important to them, and vice versa, but it might be a good idea to make what they value important to […]
The post How to Make Your Relationship Last Almost Forever appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
It’s hard to enjoy life if you are weighed down with the belief that something bad is going to happen. How can you appreciate today if you believe tomorrow will bring misery? There is a path to a better today. This episode will give you some tools to make that happen.
The post When you can’t enjoy life because you’re always waiting for the other shoe to drop appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
If you show compassion toward someone who then takes advantage of that compassion, do you back off on being kind, helpful, and accommodating? Or do you try even harder by showing them even more compassion in hopes they will finally “see the light”? In order for compassion to work, it has to come from an […]
The post Is your compassion killing you? What you think is compassion could be self-destruction appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
If you find yourself people-pleasing for love, attention or fear of confrontation, then this is for you! As a former people-pleaser myself, I’ve learned exactly what it takes to become very proficient at it. I’ve gained much wisdom since growing out of that phase of my life, so I thought I’d share with you […]
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When your family has dysfunction, family gatherings can be quite a challenge. What do you do in the midst of family drama? Do you recoil and transform into the old, pre-personally-developed you? Or do you stand firm in who you are today and love then with your healthy boundaries? Family is the final frontier of […]
The post How family drama can teach you a lot about personal boundaries appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
This is part two of a two-part episode. Part one is here. The subject is all about obsessive behavior and repetitive thoughts that keep you stuck. Whether they’re about your ex, your job, or your life, it can be a huge challenge to stop thinking of something that has a great impact on you. It’s […]
The post Making decisions that are right for you, and tackling obsession and overthinking once and for all – Part 2 appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
Obsessive thoughts and over analyzing can lead to terrible (or no) decision-making, causing you to stay in a rut that you can never get out of. Or if you do get out, it’s a very, very slow process. In this episode, I talk about what it takes to make decisions that are right for you […]
The post Making decisions that are right for you, and tackling obsession and overthinking once and for all – Part 1 appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
What can you do when you are getting humiliated or criticized? Are there practical methods of dealing with embarrassing situations? How about hurtful criticism? This episode gets into the challenge of dealing with humiliation and criticism.
The post Enduring the spotlight of humiliation, embarrassment and criticism appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
In this episode of The Overwhelmed Brain podcast, I answer several questions ranging from overcoming jealousy, people that impose their values on you, what affects your self-worth and self-esteem, getting over insecurities about body comments, letting go of intrusive, distressing thoughts, expressing yourself and more! It’s the variety episode on emotional intelligence. I hope you […]
The post Self-help variety – Pushy people, jealousy, body image, self-worth, self-esteem, intrusive thoughts and more! appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
How many decisions do you make in your life that are actually based on what you want instead of how someone else will respond? Sometimes it takes a swift kick in the emotional behind to get moving on your decisions so that you can get out of the emotional rut of trying to please others […]
The post Living life on your terms appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
1Do you enable behavior that you don’t like? Is it possible that the people that cause you stress do so because you are allowing it in some way? This episode covers a very important topic that may help you get your power back if you adopt and apply the message. For more on enabling bad […]
The post Are you enabling the bad behavior of other people? appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
Social anxiety can be debilitating. In this bonus mini-episode, I talk about one way to start thinking about it differently so that it doesn’t have such a grip on you. If you experience social anxiety or any type of social phobia, you may benefit from the S.A.F.E. Empowerment System. It’s an audio program designed to […]
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If they’re not like you, you don’t like them. If you’re not like them, they don’t like you. You have opinions, so do they, but should your differences separate you and cause you so much stress that you would rather lose relationships than accept people for their differences? This is a full episode with many […]
The post I’m right you’re wrong: The sides we take that create division and distress appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
Trying to find happiness is hard enough, but trying to do it when other people are in your life (or are interfering with your life) is even harder. The first email I read on this episode is from someone who has a problem with his girlfriend smoking pot. He wants the relationship, but not the […]
The post Finding your true path so you don’t end up living a false life appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
Hurtful people do a really good job of causing us to feel bad about ourselves. Not only that, we end up repeating what they said or did to us in our mind over and over again. The emotional trauma can last for months or years. In this episode I help transform the hurtful messages from […]
The post Stop believing what hurtful people say to you: Transforming negative self-talk to empowerment appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
When you end up in a miserable relationship, who’s to blame? Do you feel powerless as the relationship gets worse and worse? It’s vital to see the signs at the beginning, but it’s even more important what you do later on when you are heavily invested.
The post How to avoid miserable relationships by knowing how to make better choices appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
If you’re commitment-phobic or someone who has trouble making and committing to decisions, you’ve probably noticed your life coming to a standstill more often than you want. The solution may be a simple change that’s a challenge to implement, but could transform your life. Listen to this episode to help you make decisions faster and […]
The post The phobia of commitments and making decisions appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
When you get that suspicious feeling that a friend, family member or partner is doing something deceptive, do you investigate further? Or do you take their word when they say nothing is going on? When that gut instinct kicks in, it’s time to listen and perhaps even dig a little deeper just to get to […]
The post Investigating gut feelings in relationships appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
How difficult is it to experience life to the fullest when you have a dark cloud of problems and challenges? In this episode, I help you tackle the problems in your life with many questions designed to loosen the grip emotional challenges have on you. If you can get some relief from the problems in […]
The post Loosening the Emotional Grip Problems Have on You appeared first on The Overwhelmed Brain.
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what if you are both fixers . referring to the emotionally needy episode