A Groundbreaking Four-Step Solution to Stress and Overwhelm—Tailored to Your Life Do more. Be more. Try harder. It's the battle cry of our culture, and it's making millions of us sick, tired, and frustrated. Why? Because we simply can’t solve stress and overwhelm by doing more and more of what we've been doing. With Overcoming Overwhelm, Dr. Samantha Brody offers an alternative. "You don't need new ways to manage your stress," teaches Dr. Samantha, "you need to prevent it from overwhelming you in the first place." Using her proven and practical techniques that have already helped thousands, this pioneering naturopathic physician teaches you how to systematically undo overwhelm, with four simple steps: Step 1) Find Your True North. Clarify what is truly important to you. Who do you want to be, how do you want to feel, and what do you want your day-to-day life to look like? Step 2) Establish Your Foundation. Identify what roadblocks may get in your way of making the changes that will help you live the life of ease you crave. You’ll make a plan for assembling a team that can help you reach your goals, and you'll fortify your mindset to prepare for success. Step 3) Take Your Overwhelm Inventory. Determine your unique causes of stress (some obvious, and many that will surprise you) in your physical surroundings, health, habits, relationships, thinking patterns, and more. Step 4) Create and Launch Your Personal Plan. Start making the targeted changes that will help you rid your life of overwhelm and radically improve your well-being on all levels—body, mind, and spirit. For decades, Dr. Samantha has helped people to transform their lives with her innovative approach. Now you can use the same tested tools and guidance to experience the freedom of better health, greater resilience, and peace of mind.

Decision Fatigue - That sinking feeling you get when the crush of opt-ins, opt-outs, updates, pop-ups, and endless interruptions have gotten the better of you. Today's overwhelming number of daily choices are draining your brain of the energy it needs to make the best decisions. As a result, you take dumb shortcuts. You tweet without thinking. You splurge on the outfit that blows your budget. You let the dealer talk you into rustproofing your car. Or you simply stop making decisions all together to ease the mental strain and to avoid the chance of screwing up. Sound familiar? Overcoming Overwhelm is an uplifting read explaining how the best decision makers manage this daily chaos and come away with their sanity intact. Eliminate APPoplexy by managing your apps rather than having them manage you. Learn how to manage the safe decision syndrome that can creep into every significant decision. Discover how one senior leader chunks her time and has improved the decision-making around her as a result. Learn how to eradicate the hustle-porn that saps energy and wastes time. And much more! Walk away with lots of practical strategies guaranteed to beat this scourge of the everyday workplace.

______________________ 'Too much to do? Stop and read this' - Guardian 'For a fresh take on an eternal dilemma, Overwhelmed is worth a few hours of any busy woman's life – if only to ensure that she doesn't drop off the bottom of her own “To Do” list' - Mail on Sunday ______________________ In her attempts to juggle work and family life, Brigid Schulte has baked cakes until 2 a.m., frantically (but surreptitiously) sent important emails during school trips and then worked long into the night after her children were in bed. Realising she had become someone who constantly burst in late, trailing shoes and schoolbooks and biscuit crumbs, she began to question, like so many of us, whether it is possible to be anything you want to be, have a family and still have time to breathe. So when Schulte met an eminent sociologist who studies time and he told her she enjoyed thirty hours of leisure each week, she thought her head was going to pop off. What followed was a trip down the rabbit hole of busy-ness, a journey to discover why so many of us find it near-impossible to press the 'pause' button on life and what got us here in the first place. Overwhelmed maps the individual, historical, biological and societal stresses that have ripped working mothers' and fathers' leisure to shreds, and asks how it might be possible for us to put the pieces back together. Seeking insights, answers and inspiration, Schulte explores everything from the wiring of the brain and why workplaces are becoming increasingly demanding, to worldwide differences in family policy, how cultural norms shape our experiences at work, our unequal division of labour at home and why it's so hard for everyone – but women especially – to feel they deserve an elusive moment of peace. ______________________ 'Every parent, every caregiver, every person who feels besieged by permanent busyness, must read this book' - Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Why Women Still Can't Have It All

Are you constantly feeling stressed, overloaded, or out of control? Conquering Overwhelm is here to help you reclaim your peace and create sustainable balance in your life. This interactive workbook is designed to guide you through practical exercises, reflective activities, and proven strategies that will not only help you manage stress but also build long-term resilience to face life’s challenges with confidence. With Conquering Overwhelm, you won’t just read about managing stress—you’ll actively participate in transforming your mindset and habits. Each chapter offers hands-on exercises that encourage deep self-reflection and practical application, helping you navigate and conquer the daily pressures that lead to overwhelm. Key Benefits: Interactive Experience: This workbook goes beyond theory, providing exercises and activities to put strategies into immediate action. Practical Tools for Immediate Relief: Learn quick and effective techniques to regain control in stressful moments. Long-Term Strategies for Balance: Develop routines and practices that prevent overwhelm from taking over. Build Emotional Resilience: Strengthen your ability to cope with life’s challenges through a personalized plan that fits your unique needs. Effective Communication: Master strategies to set boundaries and communicate your needs clearly, enhancing your relationships. Workbook Breakdown: Overwhelm Assessment This chapter includes a practical assessment to help you evaluate the current sources of overwhelm in your life. By identifying the key areas causing stress, you’ll gain a clearer understanding of where to focus your energy and which strategies will be most effective in managing your specific challenges. Recognizing Overwhelm Understand the signs of overwhelm and how it impacts your physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Learn how to identify the triggers that create stress and start tracking patterns to regain control. Immediate Strategies for Relief Get quick, practical techniques to calm your mind and body when you feel overwhelmed. Learn how to implement strategies like deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, and visualization to regain focus in moments of stress. Long-Term Strategies for Balance Create a balanced routine that supports both productivity and self-care. This chapter provides actionable steps to set up daily habits that integrate work, relaxation, exercise, and hobbies, helping you maintain long-term well-being. Developing Resilience to Overwhelm Learn how to cultivate resilience by fostering a growth mindset, practicing gratitude, and turning setbacks into opportunities for growth. This chapter helps you build emotional strength so you can bounce back from challenges more easily. Overcoming Overwhelm in Relationships Discover how personal relationships can contribute to or alleviate overwhelm. This chapter guides you through communication strategies, boundary-setting techniques, and activities to improve your emotional health by fostering supportive relationships. Building Your Support Network Strengthen your support system by identifying key individuals who can provide emotional and practical support. Learn how to fill any gaps in your network and nurture meaningful connections that help you feel more supported and less isolated. Personalized Action Plans This chapter helps you create a customized plan to tackle overwhelm, including a "Resilience Plan" and "Relationship Mapping" exercise. You’ll have a concrete guide to follow, making it easier to apply the book’s lessons to your everyday life.

This beloved bestseller—over 180,000 copies sold—has helped caregivers worldwide keep themselves emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, and physically healthy in the face of the sometimes overwhelming traumas they confront every day. A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll taken on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, or numb or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness we so desperately need if we are to benefit humankind, other living things, and the planet itself. In Trauma Stewardship, we are called to meet these challenges in an intentional way. Lipsky offers a variety of simple and profound practices, drawn from modern psychology and a range of spiritual traditions, that enable us to look carefully at our reactions and motivations and discover new sources of energy and renewal. She includes interviews with successful trauma stewards from different walks of life and even uses New Yorker cartoons to illustrate her points. “We can do meaningful work in a way that works for us and for those we serve,” Lipsky writes. “Taking care of ourselves while taking care of others allows us to contribute to our societies with such impact that we will leave a legacy informed by our deepest wisdom and greatest gifts instead of burdened by our struggles and despair.”

Stressed out? Anxious? Overwhelmed? Good news—you’re not alone! No one ever said life was going to be easy. Between financial struggles, marital issues, health scares, and the regular, run-of-the-mill problems of everyday life, it’s easy to feel weighed down and trapped by your circumstances. In times like these, it’s tempting to just throw in the towel and quit. Well, don’t do it! Perry Noble has stood at the edge of the abyss himself, and in Overwhelmed, he shares the keys to unlocking the chains of anxiety and despair once and for all. Building on the premise that when we shift our focus from our circumstances to Christ, everything changes, Perry walks readers through a life-altering plan for overcoming stress, worry, depression, and anxiety so we can be free to enjoy the abundant, joy-filled lives we were created for. God knows we’re frustrated. He knows we’re tired. He knows we’re struggling. But He also knows how things are going to turn out. He is greater than anything you are going through . . . so don’t give up on God. After all, He’s never given up on you.

Whether we are overwhelmed by work or school; our families or communities; caretaking for others or ourselves; or engagement in social justice, environmental advocacy, or civil service, just a few subtle shifts can help sustain us. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, bestselling author of Trauma Stewardship, shows us how by offering concrete strategies to help us mitigate harm, cultivate our ability to be decent and equitable, and act with integrity. The Age of Overwhelm aims to help ease our burden of overwhelm, restore our perspective, and give us strength to navigate what is yet to come.