49. Trying to Find Our Window of Tolerance

Episode 49Welcome to the Healing Pod! Apologize for Jess being dark/having off audio. It is what it is. Today we are talking about the window of tolerance. This is the optimal space that we function in, where we are energized enough to engage and not so overwhelmed as to fly off the handle at anything that is in our path. Avoiding the zombie phase and the rage phase is a struggle we all face. And full disclosure, the two of us are having another set of weeks where we are stressing the edges of our window of tolerance and trying to maintain functioning truly and not just by stealing energy from tomorrow.We want to know our edges and our boundaries, so we can keep ourself in the optimal area for working on hard things, and so we can increase our window of tolerance and skills in self-regulation to make life easier for us. So listen to us ramble through our attempts to find our window and make it open a tiny little bit wider. If you want to give us something to talk about, or join in a podcast episode, feel free to post on any of our social media or submit an anonymous story here: https://forms.gle/77KgEmvVpLYBMAHt6As always, thank you to the wonderful Dr. Miki Anderson for our intro and outtro music. She can be found under Pax Minerva on Apple Music and is all around a wonderful human being. And thank you to Dr. Keith Christie of Journey Together and Mia Karpack for helping us get our socials up and going! https://journeytogetherpc.com/ Stay tuned for episodes featuring some of his top notch clinicians!Come join us and chat, complain, or send in what mental health you would like to hear us ramble about! Find us on Facebook, TikTok, and instagram at The Healing Pod We are online at https://www.PeasInTheHealingPod.com  You can email us any questions, suggestions, comments, or memes at [email protected]  If you want to hunt down the bits and bobbles that have been cut out of our episode, join us for another live recording, or just to buy us a cup of coffee, come join us at https://www.patreon.com/TheHealingPod