Recently, I had what felt like a minor landslide of overwhelm hit my life. As a life and career coach, I work with clients daily, and I run a podcasting bootcamp class. I recently left my corporate job and rebalanced my sons time in preschool so hes home two days a week with me and I work the other three. It was going great until . The water main broke at his school and they closed for two weeks. What felt doable, quickly careened into the territory of too much. To juggle work and calls that first week, there was a lot of TV being watched at our house. On Wednesday we went to a pinball Museum for half a day. By Friday I was pretty frazzled and feeling like I was doing a whole lot, but not doing anything well. I got so distracted by my son playing with a balloon while in his car seat that I managed scrape my car against our fence while backing out of the driveway on our way to the store.

Overwhelm. Its that feeling that things are not as youd like for them to be and that life is out of control. A feeling of anxiety around the amount of things that need to be done, and if youre like me, anxiety about the things that are not done. In my own life, and in the lives of my clients, overwhelm seems to be a symptom that comes up when there changes, or new things in play in someones life. You start a new job, have a baby, take up a new training class, or a new hobby, and what once felt somewhat balanced is now on the precipice being completely out of control.