What drives us the most are the "thinking, behaviors, and emotions" that create the anxiety, the overwhelm. Overwhelm becomes the armor that we put on to mask our vulnerability.

We don't want to make decisions for one tiny-big reason: decisions feel final and when something feels final, we fear dealing with its consequences. This leads to the overwhelming exhaustion of indecision.

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.