Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Feeling Overstimulated? Simple Tricks to Calm the Chaos!

20 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston shares practical ways to manage overstimulation: use headphones, wear comfortable clothes, pull your hair up, have warm or cold drinks, dim the lights, and identify your specific triggers like construction noise.

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So what do you do when you have a day that just everything is overstimulating? My hair is overstimulating, my shirt is overstimulating, my fingernails are overstimulating, like everything is overstimulating. What do you do on days like that?
Oh, those are hard days. I'm not gonna lie to you. A lot of those days, this is my best friend, my headphones, because I can tune things out and I put something on, whether it's music, a show or something, but I can tune out the rest. And I make sure that my clothes are comfortable and I make sure that like if my hair starts bugging me, getting it pulled away from my face or up in a bun, messy bun, having a nice warm drink. Of course, if you have a warm drink, you need to have a cold drink, you know? So there's, there's a lot of little things that we do that can help us in dealing with that overstimulation. Sometimes I'm overstimulated with just the light. So I've got to have a room that's kind of dark. The noise outside because we're still in a construction area with them building around us. So there's a lot of things that can happen to stimulate us, but we got to be aware of what those things are. I think that's a huge, huge aspect because a lot of us are just not aware.