I heard someone say last week, that she no longer makes room for overwhelm.<\/p>\n
Really? I didn’t think overwhelm worked like that. Whelm implies a flood…and a flood is irrisitable. A different thing, a foreign substance fills your surroundings and threatens your very life.<\/p>\n
Water, or quicksand, can overwhelm you in a physical way.<\/p>\n
Emotional overwhelm is actualy internally created. I think all of us have felt overwhelmed from time to time. I\u00a0certainly know what it means when someone else tells\u00a0me that they feel overwhelmed.<\/p>\n
It’s a sense of helplessness. \u00a0A sense of being trapped and incapable.<\/p>\n
I guess if it comes from my mind, maybe I can turn it off. If I am overwhelmed by feelings and expectations, maybe I can change them.<\/p>\n
How crazy is that?<\/p>\n
I remember when my daughter was first born. I was overhwhelmed, totally. All the things it took to take care of a newborn! I felt that it would take everything I had and more and I would still fail.<\/p>\n
I realized after several months that I was crying. I was crying every day. Not all day, but at least once a day.<\/p>\n
I watched myself cry every day. I thought about it, and one day, when I was starting to cry because I was so overwhelmed, I was disgusted with myself. Not only was I so overwhelmed that I was crying, I was mad at myself for crying. It made me want to cry more.<\/p>\n
So, that day, I saw myself, and I said to myself, “Crying is the problem, not the solution.”<\/p>\n
After that I stopped crying. I did continue feelign overwhelmed, but at least I wasn’t mad at myself for crying.<\/p>\n
I cry all the time.<\/p>\n
But that was the day I decided to stop crying every day because i was scared and tired and ignorant.<\/p>\n
I decided. and I stopped.<\/p>\n
I wonder if I can just stop being overwhelmed.<\/p>\n
I am going to try it.<\/p>\n
Let’s see…Being overwhelmed is the problem, not the solution.<\/p>\n
Yeah. That’s true.<\/p>\n
Let me see if I can stop the problem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I heard someone say last week, that she no longer makes room for overwhelm. Really? I didn’t think overwhelm worked like that. Whelm implies a flood…and a flood is irrisitable. A different thing, a foreign substance fills your surroundings and … Continue reading