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When Everything Feels Like Too Much

With Johanna Asterdal

This is a 10-day course created to support you on mornings when anxiety, overwhelm, or pressure arrive before the day has even begun. Each lesson includes a brief, calming explanation of what’s happening (and why it can feel so personal), followed by a short guided practice (around 6–9 minutes) to help your nervous system find a little more ground — without asking you to feel calm, positive, or “better.” You don’t need to fix anything here — you just need support today. Across the ten days, the course moves gradually from relief and reassurance into steadier capacity and quiet integration. The early days focus on safety and softening internal urgency, the middle days help you reconnect with your body and emotions without becoming overwhelmed, and the final days support you in carrying this steadiness into everyday life without pressure or performance.

Daily grounding practices to support anxious or overwhelmed mornings.

10 Days

558 students

4.8 stars

6 min / day

English

About this course

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Meet your Teacher

Johanna Asterdal

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Karlstad, Sverige

Johanna is a yoga and meditation teacher and habit-based coach who specialises in supporting people through stress, anxiety, and overwhelm. Her work is informed by years of guiding nervous-system-focused practices, as well as her experience working with individuals who feel worn down by pressure, self-judgement, and the sense of having to cope on their own. She brings a gentle, practical approach that blends somatic awareness, mindfulness, and self-compassion, with a strong emphasis on safety, pacing, and meeting people where they are. Rather than focusing on fixing or optimising, her teaching centres on helping people feel supported, grounded, and more at ease in their bodies and daily lives. This course reflects her belief that meaningful change doesn’t come from pushing harder, but from creating small moments of steadiness that the nervous system can trust and return to.

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10 Days

558 students

4.8 stars

6 min / day

English

Lesson 1

You're Not Broken

If everything feels like too much right now, this is your reminder that you’re not failing — you’re overwhelmed. In this first practice, you’ll be guided into simple signals of safety through breath, touch, and support, without trying to fix or analyse what you feel. This is a soft beginning: a place to land, just as you are.

Lesson 2

When The Day Starts Too Fast

For mornings when your mind wakes up before your body and the day already feels like it’s running. This practice helps you slow the start through grounding, contact, and a gentle return to the present moment. You’re not trying to create a perfect morning — you’re simply giving your nervous system a slower first step.

Lesson 3

The Sense Of Pressure

Some days, pressure arrives before anything has even happened. In this practice, you’ll explore how pressure shows up in the body and how to loosen your grip without forcing relaxation. You’ll be guided to feel supported, create a little more space, and carry a little less effort into your day.

Lesson 4

Coming Back Into The Body

When we’re overwhelmed, attention often lives in the head — planning, replaying, anticipating. This practice gently brings you back into your body through simple awareness, contact, and sensation. Not to change anything, but to reconnect with what’s here and remind your system: you are safe enough to be present.

Lesson 5

When Emotions Feel Close

This practice is for moments when emotions feel near the surface — tenderness, tears, irritability, fragility — without needing a reason. You’ll be guided to create more room around what you feel, so emotions can be present without taking over. No fixing, no rushing — just gentle permission and steadiness.

Lesson 6

Grounding In Real Life

Overwhelm doesn’t only show up in quiet moments — it shows up in conversations, work, queues, and everyday life. Today’s practice gives you a simple “anchor” you can return to anywhere, and teaches your system how to move in and out of stress rather than getting stuck inside it.

Lesson 7

Letting Go Of "I Should Be Better"

Today is for the inner voice that quietly evaluates you — telling you that you should be coping better, calmer, stronger, more together. This practice helps you step out of self-judgement and into simple presence, so your experience stops becoming a verdict. You’re not lowering standards — you’re removing pressure.

Lesson 8

On The Days You Don't Want To Practice

This is your permission slip for low-energy days — when pressing play feels like effort, and even “gentle” feels like too much. Today’s practice is about removing performance and staying connected in the smallest way. Halfway counts. Showing up counts. And you don’t need to be willing for this to help.

Lesson 9

Expanding Capacity, Gently

Capacity isn’t built by forcing yourself to handle more — it grows when your nervous system feels safe enough to stay present. Today, you’ll practice noticing small areas of openness or neutrality alongside areas of tension, and gently moving your attention between them. This creates space without effort, and steadiness without pressure.

Lesson 10

Carrying This With You

Today is about integration — not wrapping things up neatly, not promising consistency, not turning this into another thing to maintain. You’ll reflect on what has supported you, reconnect with simple signals of safety, and leave with reassurance. You don’t need to remember everything. Your body already knows.