The Inner Work Podcast

41. The Inner Work of Healing: The Wound of Overwhelm and Depression

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In this episode Mat & Ash embark on a powerful conversation about the wound of overwhelm and coping with major setbacks, losses, age inappropriate responsibilities, and the demands of survival.


In this episode Mat & Ash discuss: 

  • Personal experiences with loss, age inappropriate responsibilities, numbing with substances, not feeling into consequences, and survival stress

  • The overcompensating and avoidant approaches humans take to coping with overwhelm and hopelessness

  • Emotions are powerful teachers that we need to feel in order to move forward

  • Feeling the overwhelming emotions and discomfort of our choices and their consequences are essential in order to learn and mature

  • How we accidentally trigger our partner with wounds of overwhelm

  • How to validate and support a partner when they are triggered into an overwhelmed state or otherwise uncomfortable emotion

  • Navigating the natural, monthly overwhelm that comes from hormonal changes from a menstrual cycle

  • Practical steps and tools to help not be overwhelmed and stressed in life and how to better manage our stress levels

    • Free Inner Work Yoga Class to release and heal the wound of overwhelm

     

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