You can’t outrun the spiral. But you can slow it. And that choice—even just once today—is a revolution,. What’sone moment I can soften instead of speed up?

Society puts a whole bunch of pressure on us no matter what our choice is. The cost of overwhelm is burnout and how much we shift from our authentic life, when we choose to keep going and not taking a moment to pause.

What is overwhelm? We face this more often than not. In the next few episodes we examine this at length as we identify what it looks like in our behaviors and things we can do to mitigate it.

Remember the analogy of sand slipping through your fingers when we hold on to it too tightly? The joy of letting go is real too.

The feeling of helplessness or the lack of control is often the result of circumstances external to us, but the impact of this struggle is very real. Be it social media, or societal pressures and perceptions, such situations create an inordinate amount of pressure that get in the way of living our authentic selves.

When you set a goal, what are some actions you can control directly to achieve it? When can you not? Let us start to distinguish the movement from the circle of control to a circle of acceptance.

Let us get into the the basics of locus of control, what is and what is outside our control? What does it mean when we say we have an internal locus of control vs. external? What are the implications in our actions and behaviors !

Have you faced situations where your authenticity feels it is under pressure ? What have you done? Isn't it almost unavoidable sometimes?

Our journey to authenticity involves a checking in with our values, purpose and then some. Acknowledging an inner compass enables and empowers us at a whole new level of self acceptance and accountability.

Continuing from the previous episode, let us look at more tools to help combat imposter syndrome in a mindful manner.