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The Overwhelmed Brain, 657 episodes. Page 4 of 7.

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Laying down the ground rules for the toxic people in your life

302

Making the shift from repeatedly being upset at someone else and letting it go

303

The risk you take by being your authentic self

304

Making the decisions that help you prevent overwhelm

305

How some life choices bring on your own suffering

306

Feeling more secure with your insecurities

307

Learning to control your own reactions and overreactions

308

The path to empowerment is full of risk and reward

309

Arguing as a tool for healing

310

Don't let fear of confrontation make you silent

311

Learning the difference between useful and unuseful emotions will change your level of happiness

312

Loosening the grip emotional pain and suffering can have on you

313

How to avoid making the same mistakes over and over again

314

Choosing between the empowered response and the dysfunctional one

315

The past, present, and future of unpleasant memories

316

Disarming people that disempower you

317

When loved ones reject your reality and replace it with their own

318

Feeling crazy because you don't have the answers

319

Sometimes facing yourself is the only way change can happen

320

Friends and family that try to be helpful but really aren't

321

The pain you sometimes need to go through to increase your quality of life

322

Taking the blame for their behavior

323

When you don't know who you are

324

What to do when the judgments come out of you

325

Can there be peace and balance in an unbalanced relationship?

326

Practicing non-confrontational ways to honor yourself

327

What to do when you're going nowhere

328

The regrets and leftover emotions after someone dies

329

Do people think you're stubborn for honoring your boundaries?

330

Working through those old emotional triggers so that you can stop the PTSD and start living life again

331

The intimacy that happens behind their back

332

When loved ones resist the decisions you need to make for yourself

333

Depression or the blahs shouldn't be a way of life

334

Walking around as an adult with dysfunctions from childhood

335

Email grab bag: Getting ghosted while dating and when you have trouble forgiving someone who wronged you

336

Should commitments always be a forever thing?

337

More on taking a stand to make changes in your life - A peaceful approach or take a risk instead?

338

Email grab bag: Purging awkwardness, the perfect partner, lonely and depressed

339

How to deal with the worries of today and the emotional triggers of every day

340

I can't get you out of my head but I need to so I can start living again

341

Dealing with mean family

342

Sometimes you have to take a stand to make a change in your life, even if you're scared as hell.

343

Your life's purpose does not have to be about you

344

Can love enable those you care about to do bad behavior_

345

When people don't like you

346

When you have to make a big decision about the relationship

347

Waiting for someone else to change so that your life will be better

348

The emotional aftermath of getting free of the narcissistic relationship

349

Why you're not getting a second chance

350

The toxic residue that lingers inside you from people that make you feel bad about yourself

351

Learning that your adult child suffered child sexual abuse

352

When your top values aren't being met, the rest of it falls apart

353

Know and stand by your standards for the healthiest relationships possible

354

When you desperately want an explanation or closure but you can't get it

355

How to feel better about yourself

356

New relationships should not create worry about what it is or isn't

357

Getting comfortable letting go of what no longer serves you

358

Making sure toxic people and toxic environments don't take over your life

359

When social anxiety, fear, and loneliness keep you from doing what you want to do

360

When life seems like an endless series of dead ends

361

The one question to ask yourself when you can't figure out what to do

362

Overcoming a general distrust of people and the benefit of taking risks

363

Am I overreacting or are they just a jerk? And the woman who is the last to know about the family secret

364

When the fear of abandonment keeps you from happiness

365

Those selfish people that don't care if you're hurt by their behavior

366

Bringing the best version of yourself into a world full of fearful people

367

Making impossible decisions

368

How to help yourself and others by accessing your inner wisdom

369

Staying positive while other people get what you want and you don't

370

When it feels like you never get enough from life

371

Keeping old emotional pain out of the new year

372

Keep your power by giving yourself one of the greatest gifts possible

373

Using loved ones as a verbal punching bag

374

How to avoid destroying yourself with guilt

375

Being alone

376

What to do when your self-improvement creates fears and conflict in others

377

What comes out of you when people push you over the edge

378

Establishing boundaries with toxic family

379

"There must be something wrong with me": How you brainwash yourself by reinforcing negative false beliefs

380

Facing the challenge, getting through it, and coming out of it new and improved

381

When others make you feel small

382

Are you inadvertently responsible for your own unhappiness

383

Processing thoughts and emotions through self-guided questions

384

Keeping your power in conversations with controlling, dominating and overpowering people

385

Dealing with the impossible boss and other relationship advice when it comes to job, career and life

386

Jealousy in the relationship

387

When there's insecurity or fear around sex, the entire relationship suffers. And a listener disagrees with my advice

388

Making difficult and sometimes painful decisions that almost always improve your life

389

Enforce your boundaries, keep the balance, stop the compromising, end your suffering and more: Email grab bag episode

390

What you might have to do if the people and situations in your life never improve

391

The big, scary steps that lead to positive change

392

Self-help variety episode: Anxiety, guilt, and people who are worried about their personal life interfering their professional life

393

Changing your habitual negative emotions about the past or future

394

Holding yourself in high regard when others don't

395

When people don't step up in your defense

396

Those intrusive, invading and disturbing thoughts that you try to resist and repress

397

The tough-love principles of living a life without giving away your power

398

When you just can't move forward because of inner conflict

399

The decisions that cause you to lose your power and keep you in a rut

400

You got through the bullying when you were younger but how do you deal with the residual as an adult?