The Overwhelmed Brain

Emotional Intelligence for Critical Thinkers

Those intrusive, invading and disturbing thoughts that you try to resist and repress

Those intrusive, invading and disturbing thoughts that you try to resist and repress
Those intrusive, invading and disturbing thoughts that you try to resist and repress
Episode play icon
Those intrusive, invading and disturbing thoughts that you try to resist and repress
July 7, 2019

When your thoughts make you feel bad because you believe you shouldn’t have them, you might repress them and stuff them back where they came from. However, doing this might be exactly what keeps those negative, intrusive thoughts alive.

My girlfriend and I recently faced a challenging issue related to our mental and physical well-being, specifically involving depression. I’m sharing our experience because it may introduce a component of being well that you may not have considered in your own mental health journey.

[Read more…]

Just how deep do you have to dig to heal unresolved issues?

Just how deep do you have to dig to heal unresolved issues?
Just how deep do you have to dig to heal unresolved issues?
Episode play icon
Just how deep do you have to dig to heal unresolved issues?
September 5, 2021

The past can wreak havoc on the present, especially on your relationships. If therapy, reading, watching videos, and learning all you can about how to improve and heal isn’t working, sometimes you need to dig so deep that break down the wall that’s hiding the true source of pain underneath. At that point, healing can begin.

Are your feelings wrong?

Are your feelings wrong?
Are your feelings wrong?
Episode play icon
Are your feelings wrong?
April 23, 2023

(Episode synopsis)

In Any Relationship, You’re Either Contributing to It or Taking Away From It.

When you take away from it, you are pulling out the main ingredients of what make a relationship healthy and enjoyable. When you are contributing to it, you are strengthening it you are giving it the life and vibrancy, it needs to stay healthy and last long.

One of the things I’ve learned over the years is that the more you show up as your true self with mostly everyone in your life, life becomes a lot easier.

[Read more…]

The hidden emotions that may be inside you and you don't know it

The hidden emotions that may be inside you and you don't know it
The hidden emotions that may be inside you and you don't know it

Episode play icon
The hidden emotions that may be inside you and you don't know it

Most people aren’t taught emotional intelligence in their upbringing. And because of that, there are often lingering negative emotions hanging around inside us that might need to be addressed if we’re going to experience a life without the burden of anxiety, depression, and emotional triggers.

Getting out of anxiety and depression is often not an easy task, but there is an angle I take today that might give you a good start.

The inside the box thinking that keeps your emotional triggers alive

The inside the box thinking that keeps your emotional triggers alive
The inside the box thinking that keeps your emotional triggers alive
Episode play icon
The inside the box thinking that keeps your emotional triggers alive
June 13, 2021

Albert Einstein said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

When you aren’t getting the results you want today, or you find yourself easily triggered by certain events or people, you may be carrying around old baggage that perhaps requires a level of thinking just outside the box.

Many unresolved emotions sit outside the box of current thinking. If you don’t want to go outside that box, it could be why you’re stuck.