For the first time in the podcast’s history I reshare seven ideas for how you can bring down the overwhelm and create some calm, and even feel a little more joy, during Christmas and the New Year.

In this episode we look at:

• How your expectations impact your enjoyment of Christmas
• What small, practical actions you can take to ease the stress
• What to do if you don’t feel full of festive spirit
• How to make the most of the good stuff

Resources

• Episode 14: The damaging word every overthinker uses
• Episode 18: How to deal with difficult emotions
• If you’d like to explore how one to one coaching with me could free you from the hamster wheel take a look here or message me [email protected] and we can have a chat to see if it’s right for you
• If you value what I share in the podcast, and elsewhere, you can buy me a virtual cuppa here

When you have too much to do and too little time to do it, it feels impossible to do it all. We get tense, stressed and feel overwhelmed by the pressure and expectation. But there is something we do have control over that helps us to deal with the overwhelm.

In this episode we look at:

• Why feeling overwhelmed is not your fault
• The three common reactions to feeling overwhelmed
• How your thoughts and feelings play a part in the overwhelm
• What you can do to put yourself back in control

Resources

• Check out the special offer available until 20 December on my Focus Calls coaching package to get you quickly get a handle on your overwhelm here 
• If you value what I share in the podcast, and elsewhere, you can buy me a virtual cuppa here

Think celebrating is only for big occasions? You’re doing yourself a disservice and the chance to build your resilience, feel stronger and experience more joy, comfort and hope.

In this episode we look at:

• A different way to look at what’s celebration-worthy
• How and why the voice in your head stops you celebrating
• What we’re really doing when we celebrate
• How to gain the benefits from celebrating everyday moments

Resources

• The Calm Mind Club is closing to new members on 3 December and the price will rise when it reopens February 2020. Find out more and join at thecalmmindclub.com
• Episode 45: Being afraid to feel truly happy
• If you value what I share in the podcast, and elsewhere, you can buy me a virtual cuppa here

Comparison is something we all do in everyday life but when comparing yourself to others makes you feel bad it’s time to do something about it.

In this episode we look at:

• How we compare
• What is confirmation bias and its role in comparison
• What our judgements about others tells us about ourselves
• What you can do when you get into comparison

 Resources

• Break the Overthinking Loop online workshop is taking place on Thursday 12 November at 8pm UK time, join here and get the recording if you can’t make it live
• Get the workshop for free when you join The Calm Mind Club, find out more here
• Send me your questions for me to answer in a podcast episode to [email protected]

If you feel like you’re not in charge of your own life, or mind, that there’s always so much to do, people to please, expectations to meet, your mind never stops whirring with all the things to remember and worrying what people think of you, you’re not alone.

• In this episode we look at:
• What the voice in your head is telling you when you feel this way
• Why your inner critic is shouting so loudly
• How to deal with it
• What you can do to start taking back control of your own life

Resources

• Episode 55: Do you have a choice?
• If you’d like to explore how one to one coaching with me could free you from the hamster wheel message me [email protected] to find out how I can help you
• Find me on Instagram as @gabrielletreanor
• Send me your questions for me to answer in a podcast episode to [email protected]

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t – you’re right” – do you believe that? What we believe is possible for us, what we think we’re capable of can see us making progress or keep us feeling stuck.

In this episode we look at:

• The power our beliefs have over us
• How our beliefs create our world
• The antidote to a lack of belief
• What you can do when you only believe a little bit

Resources

• If you believe, even only a tiny amount, that it could be possible for you to be free from overthinking message me [email protected] to find out how I can help you
• Find me on Instagram as @gabrielletreanor
• Send me your questions for me to answer in a podcast episode to [email protected]
• Join The Calm Mind Club now for £1 at thecalmmindclub.com

The feeling of being backed into a corner and having little say in our own lives has been coming up in coaching conversations so I’m focusing on the topic of choice in this episode. Do you feel like you have a choice?

In this episode we look at:

• What we don’t have any control over in life
• Where we can fail to recognise we have a choice
• The power in making micro choices in everyday life
• How to feel more in control of life through the choices you make

Resources

• Join The Calm Mind Club now for £1 at thecalmmindclub.com
• If this topic of choice interests you, perhaps you’re struggling with feeling overwhelmed and you’d like some help finding a way forward, message me [email protected]
• You can find me on Instagram as @gabrielletreanor
• Send me your questions for me to answer in a podcast episode to [email protected]

As an overthinker it’s all too easy to get stuck replaying a conversation or a situation and thinking up all the different ways you could have handled it and how that could have changed things. So what do you do with all these thoughts?

In this episode we look at:

• What continuing to go over and over something in the past is doing for us
• When rehashing the past is helpful and when it is not
• What you can do to help yourself get out of this loop and move forward

Resources

• Find out how I can help you to be free from overthinking and feel free to live your life as you want at theoverthinkerscoach.com
• Send me your questions for me to answer in a podcast episode to [email protected]

When you’ve spent years, decades, worrying and overthinking it can feel like you’re stuck that way and you’re destined to always be an overthinker. So is it really possible for you to learn how to overthink less?

In this episode we look at:

• What the label ‘overthinker’ means
• What overthinking is and what it’s not
• What positive psychology research has discovered that impacts how possible it is to learn how to overthink less
• Why having tried and failed to worry less doesn’t mean you’ve failed

Resources

• Book your free 30mins Jumpstart Coaching Call (numbers are limited) here
• Find out about The Calm Mind Club where overthinkers find calm, confidence and community, and join, at thecalmmindclub.com
• Send me your questions for me to answer in a podcast episode to [email protected]

In our first new-style episode where I answer listener questions we have a brilliant one to start us off with.

In this episode we look at:

• How to treat ourselves when we’re what if-ing
• Different ways to deal with this particular worry
• When distraction is helpful and when it is not

Resources

• Find out about The Calm Mind Club where overthinkers find calm, confidence and community, and join, at thecalmmindclub.com
• Send me your questions for me to answer in a podcast episode to [email protected]
• Find out about working 1:1 with me and book a free call at theoverthinkerscoach.com