A short spoken segment by Louis Massaro explaining a first step to overcome feelings of overwhelm: change the internal narrative. He frames overwhelm as a 'traffic jam' in the mind, advises perspective-taking rather than blaming, and rejects fatalistic self-labels (e.g., 'I'm unorganized') in favor of treatable states.
I want to share with you now how to get out of overwhelm when you're feeling it. So the first step to getting out of overwhelm is change the narrative. When we talked about your story, you've got to change the narrative going on in your mind. We've all got competing desires. Do this, no, do that. And some of them are our voices. Some of them are other people's voices. But there's a. There's a conversation going on in the mind. And if the conversation is, I've got so much to do, only I had that, or I'm just unorganized, I think that's the biggest BS statement around. Right? You might be unorganized currently, but that doesn't mean you can't get organized. Before we start anything, we've got to put it in perspective for ourselves and say, you know what? What's going on here? What's going on is there's a traffic jam in my mind, okay? Let's not worry about how we got there. Let's not have a problem with the problem. Let's just recognize that we have a traffic jam and that we need to take some steps to get out of that.
