My overwhelmed self has been getting A LOT of air time since March 2020.

And even leading up to that, as I was getting into peri-menopause, life just overwhelmed me in ways it never did before.

For 2024 I wanted to explore my relationship with resistance more deeply.

One thing I am learning is just how deeply this pattern goes of giving my resistant self the driver’s seat in my life.

I mean - not in the bigger picture. But in smaller ways. Ways I wasn’t seeing before.

This thing where “I am too overwhelmed to do this” so I don’t.

Now I am seeing it differently and wondering... what if I put my most wise, brave and creative self into the driver’s seat?

Maybe if I put my most BRAVE and CREATIVE self into the driver's seat I would steamroll over my overwhelm and ignore all of the reasons WHY I am in resistance.

So I wanted to include my most WISE self in there, who knows how to tend to all of her parts.

And this part of me is like… hey I know you wouldn’t want to steamroll over your overwhelm, but why are you letting overwhelm steamroll over the rest of you?

And I’m like… whoa. What?

I thought I was just taking good care of myself. Now I see that I was letting overwhelm take over and do what she wants.

🤯

I mean - we don't see these things until we can see things things. And then when we do, it changes everything.

So it turns out overwhelm doesn’t give a fuck about anyone else’s needs. Not an appropriate part of me to have in the driver’s seat.

My most wise, brave and creative self does want to take care of overwhelm, so we are doing ALL THE THINGS (LOADS of meditation + journaling in Dream Book, eating nutrient dense, drinking lots of water, sleeping well, loads of restorative yoga and salt baths, quiet time, validating my feelings and needs, taking CBD pills for anxiety and tracking high anxiety days to get a clearer picture in case I need to see my doctor about it) to take care of my overwhelmed self - so that she is climbing into the driver’s seat less often.

So now it's like she doesn’t feel the need to steer us off the road because the journey isn’t as overwhelming for her.

 

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