Overwhelm · The Expanse

Overwhelm

Talk to me about "overwhelm", wise ones.

I lost a key employee. My plate was already full. And now I have to manage his responsabilities. It's end of the school year and it seems like every other day there are projects due. presentations, performances, etc. I enjoy being there for my kids. My wife is still only at about 60-80% capacity physically since last year's cancer treatments. I know I feel overwhelmed. When I get overwhelmed I get more irritable. I lose creativity and just put my head down and work. Sometimes I create more movement than momentum. My wife had a 60% day yesterday and when she gets overwhelmed she shuts down. She gets frustrated that she can't accomplish as much as she used to and that frustration compounds her overwhelm. Then last night my daughter laid down next to me crying because she feels overwhelmed: boy trouble, school pressure...

Why? What causes us to stack up so much stuff that we are operating on a near-collapse state every day? What happened to the days where you could sit on the porch and just enjoy the view.

Would love the Strategies you guys use to deal with these moments (not really a 'moment' for me because it's been going on for weeks).

It's almost as if we've conditioned ourselves that safety is in the chaos. That to have a moment where there is no pressure must mean that things are not right, because pressure has been a constant.

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