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Welcome back, Ananga. Hey Shen, today's conversation is all about anxiety and overwhelm and what to do when even the little things feel like too much. I know I have those days

when brushing my teeth feels like a chore or making a meal or getting out of bed all things that you just normally would take for

granted sometimes are they just feel like too much.

Yeah I think for me when this happens and it's happened a bit of a

recent years after going through quite a prolonged stressful period. It started to become very apparent to me as information that I was

overburdened, overwhelmed, and out of balance, and that my resilience wasn't as strong.

That's where I go and that's been very helpful to me to look at that with compassion

and a mentor of mine who does a lot said to me years ago when I went to him with with

something I was struggling with and I felt a little embarrassed because I said

you do so much and he just looked at me and said everyone has their threshold and at that time I'd reached

mine which wasn't as great as his but it was mine and he honored it and then from that I learned to honor my threshold too.

So I think it can be really helpful to make sure that we're being compassionate.

You know if you're trying to face something you need to tackle and somebody else is short with you and they're impatient with you

It makes you feel so much worse less efficient less capable. It's awful and we don't want to be doing that to ourselves.

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