How to Act When You're Outside the Window

Looking for strategies to help deal with the overwhelm of, well, everything? Same.

Dr Emily, our resident psychologist, is back in the studio to talk through overwhelm; how to greet it, how to get through it, and how to build your resilience towards it.

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In this episode, Dr Emily introduces how to understand your ‘window of tolerance,’ the cost of being overwhelmed for too long, and what happens when we slip into avoidance.

OF COURSE, this episode is delightfully sprinkled with practical strategies that you can do right now, in this moment, to ease the burden of the overwhelm.

Dr Em, this episode was an emotional regulation for the ages.

🫖 Other Imperfects episodes mentioned in this episode

• Dr Emily - How to Stress Less - https://bit.ly/4tiZa2y
• Mick Fanning - Riding The Waves Of Loss - https://bit.ly/4s29wCI

📖 Things to read

• Burnout, by Emily and Amelia Nagoski - https://bit.ly/4c18Yah

💪 Things to do

• The Hulk Progressive Relaxation Technique - https://bit.ly/3PFv4Yq

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