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Healing from New Age Thinking – The fears in honoring yourself – The stolen childhood of Adult Children of Alcoholics

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Healing from New Age Thinking – The fears in honoring yourself – The stolen childhood of Adult Children of Alcoholics
Healing from New Age Thinking – The fears in honoring yourself – The stolen childhood of Adult Children of Alcoholics
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Healing from New Age Thinking – The fears in honoring yourself – The stolen childhood of Adult Children of Alcoholics

In this episode, I talk about positive thinking and bridging the gap between emotions and reason.

In the next segment, when you fear honoring yourself, what can you do? It’s great advice to tell someone: “Just honor your boundaries then you can start creating the life you want!” Which of course is something I say all the time. But what if you are just too afraid to?

In the last segment, I read a letter from an adult child of an alcoholic who felt that his playfulness was stripped away because of the state of fear he lived in growing up in an alcoholic household. 

Filed Under: Ask Paul, childhood, Fears, Human Potential, Negative Emotions, Personal Boundaries, Podcast Episode, Spirituality Tagged With: I feel worse after new age thinking, I'm afraid to honor myself, My childhood was stolen from alcoholics

The Relationship You Have With Yourself – Wanting The Anxiety To Go Away – Enabling Abusive People

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The relationship you have with yourself – Wanting the anxiety to go away – Enabling abusive people
The relationship you have with yourself – Wanting the anxiety to go away – Enabling abusive people
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The relationship you have with yourself – Wanting the anxiety to go away – Enabling abusive people
May 8, 2016

When we talk to ourselves, we really are communicating with a deeper, subconscious part of us that has within it an understanding of what really motivates us in life.

Sometimes we don’t want to communicate with a part of ourselves that feels the pain, but if we don’t, that part feels neglected, lonely, hurt, and rejected, and more.

Also, is there a path out of generalized or health anxiety? Does it ever end? There are times when anxious thoughts can help you achieve your goals, then there is the anxiety that we don’t want.

Finally, I discuss abusive people that we continue to let return to our lives over and over again. Are they abusing us, or are we just abusing ourselves?

Stop anxiety when it starts with The S.A.F.E. Empowerment System

Filed Under: abuse, anxiety, Ask Paul, enabling, Family, Human Potential, Manipulation, Negative Emotions, Podcast Episode, Relationships Tagged With: Enabling Abusive People, The Relationship You Have With Yourself, Wanting The Anxiety To Go Away

The Process of Self-Sabotage – You Don’t Have to Forgive Everyone – Anxiety All The Time

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The Process of Self-Sabotage – You don’t have to forgive everyone – Anxiety all the time
The Process of Self-Sabotage – You don’t have to forgive everyone – Anxiety all the time
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The Process of Self-Sabotage – You don’t have to forgive everyone – Anxiety all the time
May 1, 2016

Why do we fall off course so easily? When you prioritize tasks that take your time away from the things you want to accomplish, you fall back farther and farther until you are no longer making progress. In fact, you might even end up going backward.

Sometimes you are not in alignment with a bigger vision for yourself. The reason is that you might actually have a value hidden under the surface that you didn’t even know was there. I talk about this self-sabotaging behavior in segment one of this episode.

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Filed Under: anger, anxiety, Ask Paul, Dysfunction, Family, Forgiveness, Guilt, Human Potential, Infidelity, Lying, Manipulation, Marriage, Negative Emotions, Physical Health, Podcast Episode, Relationships, Self-Esteem, Self-Worth, Shame, Values, Worry Tagged With: Anxiety All The Time, The Process of Self-Sabotage, You Don't Have to Forgive Everyone

Depending on Abusive People – When Physical Pain Will Not End – Should You Take Someone Who Desperately Wants You

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Depending on Abusive People – When Physical Pain Will Not End – Should You Take Someone Who Desperately Wants You
Depending on Abusive People – When Physical Pain Will Not End – Should You Take Someone Who Desperately Wants You
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Depending on Abusive People – When Physical Pain Will Not End – Should You Take Someone Who Desperately Wants You
April 24, 2016

Being in an abusive relationship of any kind, especially where you have a dependency on the abuser for one reason or another, leaves you in a tough spot.

Can you leave and still be okay, or are you so dependent that leaving will put you in a worse situation? This is a tough position to be in, so what do you do? I talk about this in segment 1. 

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Filed Under: Behavior, Human Potential, Negative Emotions, Physical Health, Podcast Episode, Relationships Tagged With: Depending on Abusive People, Should You Take Someone Who Desperately Wants You?, When Physical Pain Will Not End

The Delay of Relationship Happiness

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The desire to endOne of the issues some of my coaching clients have is a partner that can’t seem to make up their mind.

Their partners know there are problems in the relationship, yet they still procrastinate or say things like, “Yeah, I know I have problems. I’m working on them.”

I know this response well because that used to be me! I used to say, “I know I have issues and I’m doing everything I can to work on them.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Behavior, Human Potential, Relationships Tagged With: argue, marriage, relationship, trouble

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