Dr. Jenny Taitz

It's like this mismatch between our bandwidth and what we're facing.

It's when you kind of think it's too much.

I just can't.

You know, it's interesting when we're feeling kind of overwhelmed, we end up getting into a stress cycle.

We start thinking thoughts that are catastrophic or negative.

We experience stress in our minds like, you know, this is terrible.

This is the worst thing that could possibly be.

If there's something that's ambiguous and we're not sure what it is, our minds kind of default to expecting the worst or imagining things are going to be terrible.

And then we experience stress in our body, obviously thinking thoughts like, let's say you, your boss puts a meeting on your calendar.

It's very easy to start to think like, I'm going to be laid off.

And then obviously that's going to do a number to your body.

Maybe you're going to start to feel really tense, short of breath.

Then the third piece that I think is really interesting is then we often do things that make things that much worse.

So if your boss put a meeting on the calendar and

you're all tens.

Maybe you decide like, I can't focus.

I'm just going to like procrastinate for like the next four hours until the meeting happens.

And then you've put yourself into this whole tornado.

And the crazy thing, Chris, is that I've had so many clients that have had like this exact thing happen to them.

And like, it's kind of hilarious.