Conquering Mental Chaos: Steps to Start Climbing that Mountain of Overwhelm

How's your brain feeling right now?  Nice and calm, like a zen garden? Or are we more in the absolute cluster chaos central territory? If you're more in the chaos camp, don't worry, you're most certainly not alone. 

Discovering how to tackle that overwhelming mental chaos mountain can feel like an impossible feat. In this episode of the Get It Together, Weirdo podcast, host and coach Sarah Bowser explores practical strategies and unconventional approaches to help you conquer the anxiety and guilt that loves to plague your mind.

Sarah shares her personal experiences with overwhelm and burnout and the pressure to meet unrealistic expectations, emphasizing the importance of identifying your personal triggers and aligning your actions with your core values. Besides practical strategies like brain dumping and experimenting with different approaches to organization, you’ll learn the significance of having self-compassion, setting boundaries, and prioritizing your mental health to overcoming guilt and anxiety. 

So take some time this week to reflect on what truly matters to you. And if you want to stay in the loop on new episodes, posts, and other tidbits that Sarah shares, go to thatweirdnerdymom.com to hop on her email list, or join her for weekly coworking on Mondays. 

What you’ll learn in this episode: 

• How societal pressures and unrealistic expectations can lead to burnout 
• The importance of identifying your own personal triggers and aligning your actions with your core values to reduce anxiety and guilt
• Practical strategies such as brain dumping and experimenting with organizational methods to manage mental chaos and reduce overwhelm
• The significance of self-compassion, setting boundaries, and prioritizing mental health in your daily life to combat excessive guilt.

Noteworthy quotes from this episode:

“You're not letting anyone down by taking care of yourself.”

“When we align our actions with our core values, we start to reduce that overwhelm because we're no longer pulled in a million directions by things that don't really matter to us. It's like having a compass that always points us in the right direction, even when the storm of chaos is raging around us.”

“Between these societal pressures and our own inner critic, our brains create this perfect storm of mental chaos. And often, underneath it all, there are deeper fears. A fear of failing so much that we lose our jobs. Fear of not being good enough, being abandoned by our friends. Fear of not being loved or accepted by our family, and being excommunicated for being our chaotic selves. These fears fuel the anxiety and keep us stuck in this cycle of overwhelming guilt. But we can start to unmask this chaos and find some clarity.”

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