Itβs That Time of Year Again
Nov 25, 2025
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It’s That Time of Year Again
The sounds, the smells, the music, the people, the food, the lights…
BIG SIGH.
The season of… predictable overwhelm.
Wait.
What?
Yes. Predictable overwhelm.
The meals to plan.
The travel plans to make.
The weather to watch.
The guests coming and going.
The family dynamics to navigate.
The menu to cook.
The things to order.
So many places for overwhelm to slip in, take over, and steal our joy.
It might be your overwhelm...or someone else’s.
You’re feeling it, or you’re watching it. It’s buzzing around the kitchen and dining room, making the to-do list grow, whispering the lie that everything depends on you, and that you aren’t enough.
Add a little people-pleasing to the mix?
Hello, perfect storm.
An Experiment
What if we treated this as a little storm prep?
Instead of joining the storm, or creating it, what would happen if we asked:
How can I choose and live from True Self in this season, and let myself be enough?
What would showing up in love, for me and for others, actually look like?
If You’re Experiencing Overwhelm…
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What if you noticed the tension and stopped to breathe? Or took a short walk?
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What if you crossed something off your list? Just one thing.
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What if you asked someone else to take one small task?
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What could you simplify?
If You’re Watching Someone Else’s Overwhelm…
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Could you invite them to stop for a minute and breathe?
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Could you look over their list and help them cross something off?
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Could you help them brainstorm who else could take a task?
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How could you help them simplify?
As the holidays roll in, I’m reminding myself that my presence is more valuable than my performance.
I’m also working on tending myself so that overwhelm stays a moment and doesn't become a storm.
We know what’s coming: crowded calendars, long to-do lists, the pull in every direction. We have the data. It’s a lot.
Maybe, like with actual storms, we need storm prep for overwhelm. Not to avoid it, but to meet it with grace and minimize the damage it can do when we let it loose full force.
Overwhelm isn’t a bad thing; it’s a signal to course-correct.
A Plan for Meeting Overwhelm with Grace
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Check your intentions.
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Check your motives.
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Check your performance meter.
Life is full of things to do. Some are musts. Some are wants. Some are coulds.
All those choices and all that variety don’t change the truth: we can only do one thing at a time.
So let’s stop creating lists and schedules that demand we forget that.
Let’s take back the energy that overwhelm tries to steal by doing one thing at a time.
Let’s take some things off our list altogether.
Let’s share the load.
Let’s simplify.
So we can give ourselves, and our people, the gift of being fully present.
I’ll be cheering you on as I mark a few things off my list,
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