41. The Inner Work of Healing: The Wound of Overwhelm and Depression

In this episode Mat & Ash embark on a powerful conversation about the wound of overwhelm and coping with major setbacks, losses, age inappropriate responsibilities, and the demands of survival.

In this episode Mat & Ash discuss: 

• Personal experiences with loss, age inappropriate responsibilities, numbing with substances, not feeling into consequences, and survival stress
  
  
• The overcompensating and avoidant approaches humans take to coping with overwhelm and hopelessness
  
  
• Emotions are powerful teachers that we need to feel in order to move forward
  
  
• Feeling the overwhelming emotions and discomfort of our choices and their consequences are essential in order to learn and mature
  
  
• How we accidentally trigger our partner with wounds of overwhelm
  
  
• How to validate and support a partner when they are triggered into an overwhelmed state or otherwise uncomfortable emotion
  
  
• Navigating the natural, monthly overwhelm that comes from hormonal changes from a menstrual cycle
  
  
• Practical steps and tools to help not be overwhelmed and stressed in life and how to better manage our stress levels

Free Inner Work Yoga Class to release and heal the wound of overwhelm

 

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