Day 9: What Overwhelm is Really Protecting You From
30 Days Of More
🌀 This post is part of 30 Days of More — a somatic money challenge designed to expand your capacity to hold and receive more money with less resistance. Each day includes a practice to help you turn your big feelings into fuel for big money. Free subscribers receive the daily posts and weekly money challenges, and paid subscribers get access to the somatic practices and integration journal prompts. If you’re ready to go deeper, upgrade here.
Show of hands — when was the last time you felt overwhelmed?
Maybe it was this morning. Maybe it was the moment you opened your inbox, or looked at your to-do list, or tried to hold your business vision and your children’s needs and your own body in the same moment. Maybe it was all three at once.
Overwhelm is one of the most universal experiences we share as women who are building and leading and mothering and growing. And yet — we’ve been taught to treat it like a problem to solve. Like a sign that something has gone wrong. Like proof that we’ve taken on too much.
So we shut it down.
We cancel things. We make lists. We time-block and boundary-set and try to make the feeling smaller so we can take a breath again. And sometimes, yes — that’s wisdom. Sometimes we genuinely need to take something off our plate.
But here’s what I’ve come to understand, and what changed everything for me:
When you shut down the overwhelm, you also shut down the overflow.
Overwhelm and overflow are the same sensation in the body — both are a feeling of too much.
Your nervous system doesn’t distinguish between the two. It just feels the volume, the intensity, the bigness of it all. And when we’ve been conditioned to make that feeling stop, we don’t just shut down the hard stuff. We shut down the abundance too. The ideas. The opportunities. The clients. The income. We cap it — right at the edge of what feels manageable — and then wonder why there’s a ceiling.
This is where we do things differently and where you start to expand your capacity to receive. When you don’t take the sensation of overwhelm as a sign you need to do less, but instead move with it.
Overwhelm almost always lives in the mind. It’s the to-do list that won’t stop growing, the ideas that have nowhere to land, the vision that feels too big to hold. And when we try to think our way through it — organize it, plan it, schedule it into submission — we stay stuck in our heads. We stay pushed up right against that ceiling.
But when we bring it into the body? When we move with it instead of shutting it down?
Something shifts. The noise settles. What’s actually important rises to the surface. The million dollar idea that was buried under the pile of to-dos finally has room to breathe. You clearly see your next right step, not from a place of overwhelm but from a place of overflow.
Tomorrow we drop the Overwhelm Practice for paid subscribers. Upgrade your subscription now for access and carve out some space in your calendar for the 20 minute practice. This one is so powerful.
