Experiencing overwhelm sucks. If you're going to crack overwhelm, you've got to examine three pieces: feelings, belief systems, and self-talk.

Separating feelings from facts is a very helpful critical thinking skill—it’s also a very helpful relationship skill. Separating feelings from facts allows us to define the boundaries of what is our personal truth, separate from another person’s personal truth. When we assume that what we feel is an absolute or objective truth? We spin out. Here’s how to stop letting feelings run you.

When you make your inner critic into your enemy, you make yourself into an enemy, and the war within will rage on, and on, and on, and it will wear you down in the process. It's time to stop hating yourself and listen to your inner critic, it will be the first step to ending the war within.

It's critically important that as you begin to do personal work, you notice when you might (unintentionally) start to manipulate the work. Using "I need to speak my truth" to put someone down, offer unsolicited advice, judge others, or tear into someone's character is a manipulation of the work.