The Adult Chair Podcast: Stop Stress, Anxiety & Ruminating Thoughts

Anxiety, ruminating thoughts, stress and negative impulses can make us feel like we are imploding! When we implode, it feels like our world is collapsing and we have no way out. In today's show, I help you find your way out of imploding and even stop yourself before you collapse with 10 easy tips. The great news is that it only takes minutes to change your emotional state with these, and you don't even have to do all of them to feel better!

Transcript

Hello everybody and welcome to the adult chair.

I am Michelle Schelfont.

Well today I'm talking to you all about how we stop imploding.

You know when we're like so overwhelmed with stress and those racing thoughts and anxiety and all the things that happen.

We just go into this imploding feeling and we just can't get out.

Today I'm going to help you get out of it.

I've got 10 steps to get you out.

10 things you can do in order to get out of the racing thoughts when we just feel like the ship is going down.

I'm going to help get you out.

So that's what we're talking about today.

But first you can find out more about the show at theadultchair.

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It's a fabulous group as you know I love it.

So a little order of business I just want to discuss or share.

Don't forget October 12th through 14th I will be in San Diego teaching an adult chair weekend intensive.

I am so excited.

I've got the whole itinerary and all the information at theadultchair.

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Go check it out.

You'll learn exactly what we do every part of the weekend and it's an amazing weekend.

So I hope you guys can all come join me.

Let's talk about imploding.

So again I want to thank everybody in that adult chair closed group because I had asked for some podcast ideas.

We just did our planning just the other day and I got some great ideas that you all want to hear and I've written them down and you will be hearing more about them.

But this was one of the hot topics and it just so happened to come up throughout the course of my week with my clients.

So today I'm talking with you about what do we do when we feel like we're imploding or collapsing when we are stuck in those racing thoughts anxiety panic attacks love addiction the codependency when we feel like we want to fix people.

How do we stop doing these things.

I've had some clients this week that have come in and this just again totally inspired me to talk about this today.

But I had one girl that was that came in and she just said you know I feel like I'm going crazy my mind won't stop.

It's telling me all kinds of things.

I think I might be losing my mind and I said OK OK OK.

I went through all these things that we didn't by the end she walked out a different person.

So I'm going to give you exactly the same things I gave to her and another client really in their codependency and the love addict thing they really wanted to reach out to this new person that they were dating and she was doing a fabulous job.

And I want to talk to you more about what we do when we feel that urge that urge.

I don't care if it's codependency love addiction love all of these things.

What do we do when we feel that urge to reach out that again when the brain starts racing and racing and racing it's telling us to do things and we know from our adult it's not in our highest good to do it.

But when we're in that adolescent we can't stop ourselves.

So what can we do.

I've got 10 steps for you all.

Let's for starters review one thing that I know I've talked about before but it might have been really early on in the show and that is make sure that we are clean and clear in our own energy field.

And the girl that had come in this week and shared with me that she just felt like she was losing it.

She had racing thoughts and these thoughts were telling her not so nice things about herself and she was really in a low place.

And I said OK and where she works she works with a lot of men and she's a very attractive girl and she gets hit on even though she's married she's not doing anything wrong but this just happens where she works.

I'm not even sure that this is all your these are all your thoughts and your beliefs and your emotions.

So I want you to understand something if you are alive and breathing which if you're listening to this you are you have a human energy field.

It's called an aura.

This human energy field is where our thoughts emotions beliefs and ideas exist.

They're within us.

They're in this field all around us.

And what happens is when we are with people at work in the grocery store at the mall I don't care where you are if you're with other people especially if you're an empath.

You have the ability to then take on other people's thoughts beliefs and emotions.

So if I'm in a grocery store and I'm standing next to somebody that is in a terrible mood and maybe someone died that morning or they are in grief or whatever is going on with them our energy fields take on and I call it taking an emotional dump in our energy field.

So what happens is then I leave the grocery store.

I have not even talked to that person that's standing behind me or next to me and that person's energy their thoughts beliefs or emotions are now in my energy field.

So I may leave that store feeling tired cranky in grief and I don't even know why I'm in grief.

Okay.

So that happens to us and I shared this early on in the in the podcast.

I had a friend many years ago we'd gone to Starbucks and we had a lovely time we were laughing.

I was in a great mood.

She was in a great mood and they were getting ready to leave.

She gave me a hug.

I thought everything was fine and my energy was high.

Everything was fine.

I got in the car and I was exhausted.

I could not barely drive home.

I can still see myself.

My eyes were just about my eyelids were like closing.

Like I said,

Oh my gosh,

I can barely drive home.

I don't know what happened because I was in a great mood.

I'm not having any negative thoughts.

This makes no sense to me that I'm suddenly in the car and I'm driving home and I can barely drive.

So I get home.

I said I got to climb into bed.

I think it was only like 11 in the morning and I said,

I can't believe what's going on.

I'm going to have to get in bed.

This is crazy.

But I remember I had a new puppy.

So I said,

I got to take this damn puppy outside.

I'm so tired.

It was the last thing I wanted to do.

But I did.

And I'm standing in my backyard with my puppy and my trees.

And I said,

I just don't think this is my energy.

Something's not right.

Something's not right.

So I started stomping around my backyard,

Giving my neighbors a little show.

And I was just stomped around for maybe a minute.

And I was taking my hands and brushing myself off as if I had dust all over me.

Brush,

Brush,

Brush.

And I was stomping around and I said,

Any energy that's not mine,

Leave now.

Drop into the earth.

Mother earth,

Take it.

It's not mine.

And I sort of shook and stomped around again,

Maybe a minute.

My little puppy peed.

I picked her up,

Walked inside and I said,

Oh my God,

I am completely fine.

In fact,

I'm re-energized.

What the heck was that?

So I ended up calling my friend.

She did not answer.

She called me two hours later.

And then I said,

What happened?

I said,

Did you have an emotion at the very end of our time together?

And she said,

Yeah,

Actually I did.

She said,

I was hoping to see this guy.

And I didn't know this because she didn't share it with me.

She says,

I was hoping to see this guy that they had kind of connected.

She really wanted to date him.

And she said,

He's always at Starbucks in the morning and I didn't see him that day.

And I got so sad when we were leaving.

She said,

Oh,

She says,

I was so sad.

I had to come home and take a nap.

She says,

I just really,

Really,

Really would like to meet and date this guy.

Unbeknownst to me,

This had happened.

And I said,

Oh my God,

I had picked up on your sadness and I didn't even know it.

So,

But the great news is,

Is I created this thing,

Which I call the Indian Stomp.

Because literally I stomped around,

Shook myself off and cleared myself of her energy that,

Again,

I didn't even know it was on me until in that moment.

So it was a phenomenal experience because I use it all the time now.

So the first thing I did with my client that said to me,

And she looked terrible,

I'm not going to lie.

And she just said,

I've had the worst month.

All of these things are going wrong.

Work is not going great.

I really feel like I'm losing it.

I don't know what to do.

And the way she was talking,

I said,

I don't think,

I thought to myself,

I don't think this is all her energy.

So the first thing,

If you feel like you're imploding,

If you feel like your brain will not stop racing.

In fact,

That's a huge indicator for me when my mind starts racing,

Number one.

And secondly,

When I start having like weird anger or fatigue,

And sometimes I start swearing.

And when I start swearing all the time,

I'll say to myself,

You know,

I think I need to clear off.

I need to clean myself off.

So notice when you suddenly have a shift in your emotional state,

You could have someone else's energy on you.

So the first thing that I'd recommend is to do the Indian Stomp.

You can do it inside.

I prefer to do it outside.

But if it's raining and freezing cold,

Do it on the inside.

I don't care.

But stomp your feet around,

Shake your energy field off,

Brush yourself off,

Let any energy that's not yours fall away into the ground.

So this is what I did with this client this week.

And she did that right away.

And at the end,

After just one minute of doing this,

She said,

Oh my God,

I feel a little bit better.

That's so weird.

And she says,

I feel lighter.

I said,

Great.

And she said,

But you know,

I think I might be going crazy.

I said,

Okay,

We're going to talk about that in a minute.

Let's go to the next thing.

So when we're stuck in these thoughts,

And she had a lot of these thoughts,

Because she said,

You know,

When I was in high school,

You know,

I used to do some drugs and,

You know,

And I'm worried that I hurt my brain and I don't know.

So then when I start having negative thoughts,

I'm not so sure maybe I am going.

And I said,

Okay,

That's fine.

So your belief is that you think you might be going crazy.

She says,

Yeah,

I'm losing my mind.

I said,

Okay.

And she is,

I think in her thirties,

She's in her early thirties.

So that's the very first thing.

Make sure that you're only in your own energy field.

So the second thing that we want to do,

So then I had her sit down.

I said,

Okay,

Sit down.

And this is what I did with many,

Many people this whole week.

I said,

Sit down,

Especially with a racing brain,

People that are anxious,

People that people,

And a lot of people are having these panic attacks this week with me.

So I said,

Okay,

We got to bring it down a little bit.

So we want to slow down when we're in panic attack mode and we're in an anxious mode.

It means we're sitting in that adolescent chair.

The unconscious mind is just looping and feeding us thought,

Thought,

Thought,

Thought,

Thought,

Thought,

Thought.

And oftentimes with panic attacks,

We don't even know what we're thinking.

It's in the unconscious mind,

But it's still looping.

So we want to get in the body so we can realize what the heck we're thinking,

What we're feeling,

What emotions are in there.

We cannot do that when we're moving so fast.

The adolescent chair energy moves really,

Really fast.

So we need to slow everything down,

Which scares the crap out of the adolescent because it's trying to fix what's going on with us.

But that's exactly what we need to do.

So when this is what I offered next for my clients,

I said,

So sit down,

Get on my couch and let's get your feet on the ground.

So even if you have the racing thought,

I still want the feet on the ground because we want to start to ground and which means the energy is going from chin up in the mind and the brain's doing the looping and we want to bring it chin down,

Come down.

We're going to bring that energy down.

So number one,

Indian stop.

Number two,

Put your feet on the ground.

Now I know when we're in that looping state and panic attack mode and oh my God,

I want to reach out to my boyfriend,

Girlfriend,

Whomever when we're in that love addict phase.

It's hard to then stop what you're doing and do this beautiful grounding meditation.

So I'm not asking you to do that yet,

But I am inviting you to put your feet on the ground.

Then third thing you want to do is we want to,

Again,

Slow everything down.

So I ask people to do the belly breath.

Do the belly breath.

That video is on,

I believe it's on my YouTube channel or it's on my website.

So go do that belly breath.

The belly breath is when we inhale and the belly comes out on the inhale and then exhale and the belly comes in,

Not the chest.

When we are breathing from our chest,

It activates that sympathetic nervous system.

We typically are breathing when we're in that much fear,

We're breathing slow,

Shallow.

We're not taking deep breaths.

So what we want to do is bring the energy down into the belly and slowly.

And what I suggest my clients to do is to take four counts breathing on the inhale.

So the belly's coming out,

Hold it for four and then bring it in for four and then hold it for four and then inhale again for four.

So you're doing this breath for just like a minute or two.

Again,

Unanimously,

My clients say,

Oh my gosh,

And this just happened this week.

I have lots of great feedback on this.

I go,

Oh my God,

Everything's slowing down.

My legs are tingling.

I'm feeling something in the bottom of my feet.

I'm like,

Great.

Indian stop might take a minute.

Putting feet on the ground takes seconds.

Belly breath takes another minute.

So we're at two minutes.

This does not take long.

I don't like to take a long time to bring myself back into the present moment and just getting everything to slow down.

So the third thing that I suggest is to step into the moment with mindfulness.

Step into the moment with mindfulness.

So as my clients are all coming down this week,

I'd have them look around my room and I'd say,

Okay,

What do you see in my room?

And they'd go,

Well,

You got a lot of stuff in here.

I'm like,

Let's be even more specific.

And I have a plant in the corner of my room.

I said,

Okay,

What do you see over there in the corner?

They're like,

Oh,

It's a plant.

Okay.

What do the leaves look like?

Well,

They're green and they've got actually a couple of different colors.

Right.

Okay.

And what else do you see?

Oh,

There's a white flower coming out.

It's literally in the corner of my office.

Okay.

And tell me more about what you see.

How open is that white flower coming out of the piece of it?

Okay.

And what kind of vase is it or what kind of pot is it in?

I have them describe the pot and then I go,

Okay,

What else do you see?

Oh,

There's a picture.

Okay.

What do you see in that picture?

How many colors?

What specifically?

And I have them get as specific as possible.

What's happening is we're moving into the adult chair because I'm bringing them into that present moment using mindfulness.

And I ask them,

Okay,

So tell me what it feels like on my couch.

What do you notice about the couch?

Like,

Oh,

Well,

My back is really supported.

I like how mushy it is.

Okay.

What else?

Do you feel like taking your shoes off?

No,

I like,

I'm going to take my shoes off.

Okay.

Take your shoes off.

Put your feet on the floor.

What's that feel like?

Is the couch supporting you?

Are you fully letting yourself go?

Oh,

I didn't even think about that.

Let me let go a little bit more.

Great.

How's the temperature?

What does your back feel like compared to your arms?

The one girl had a short sleeve shirt on.

She goes,

I didn't even notice,

But my arms are slightly chilled,

But my back feels warm.

Oh,

Wow.

What else?

What do you smell in the room?

I usually have a diffuser on with essential oils.

Oh,

I smell a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

Great.

Okay.

And again,

She reported,

This one client said,

You know,

I feel so much slower.

And I said,

Exactly.

She says,

Everything's slowing way down.

I said,

Perfect.

That again took maybe a minute,

Two minutes maybe.

That might've taken two minutes because I brought her through all the senses.

You know,

What do you see?

I said,

What do you hear?

And I have a noise machine outside of my room.

Oh,

I hear the river.

Is it an ocean?

I'm like,

Yeah,

Let's listen a little bit harder.

So all of these things bring us right into the moment,

Slowing us down so we can start sliding into the adult chair.

Okay.

So now that she's in this very mindful place,

I go back to the grounding and I said,

Okay,

Now what do you feel with your feet?

What do you feel?

Oh,

I said,

Let's tune into the bottom of our feet.

So now I really,

Really want to activate that grounding.

Oh,

Okay.

Yeah.

I'll say,

Let's invite the bottom of your feet,

The vortexes to open and let's see what happens now.

I feel tingling.

I feel warm.

I feel cool.

I feel nothing.

I feel whatever.

I feel even more grounded.

So again,

We're bringing the energy down from chin up.

We're going chin down.

Okay.

So we're going to call this number five.

This is where the true grounding takes place.

Okay.

Even more so because we're opening up those feet.

Not that we're not grounded because that mindfulness takes us very much into the body.

Now we're just doing a deeper level of grounding versus just having the feet on the floor.

So number six.

This is one that sometimes I use,

Sometimes I don't use.

I love this.

It's the head hold.

So you want to take one whole hand,

Your palm,

And just place it across your forehead.

And then you take the other hand and the palm and you place it across that ridge in the back of your head,

The occipital ridge.

This hits the neurovascular points on the forehead and helps,

First of all,

The blood flow to move to the other part of the brain out of that amygdala where we just start to relax even more.

And I have them close their eyes and just breathe.

Okay.

Very powerful.

You can do this with your kids,

Anybody.

It just helps people calm down even more.

All right.

The head hold,

You can do it with yourself.

You can do it to another person.

It doesn't matter.

But again,

I have people close their eyes and have their hands on their forehead and on the back of that occipital ridge and just close your eyes and breathe for about a minute.

This really brings more relaxation into the body and the brain.

This is powerful.

Number seven,

Now that they're more moved into the adult chair,

I ask them,

Now that they're in this really relaxed state,

And sometimes I'll have them keep their hands on their forehead and on the occipital ridge and I'll say,

Okay,

So now I'm going to use this one client that I had this past week when she said,

You know,

I think I'm going crazy.

I'm losing it.

No,

No.

I want you to know that you're in this new state.

Can you tell me what's fact and truth?

Has anything changed from when you walked in?

And she says,

Yes,

It did.

I feel totally different.

And I said,

Well,

What do you know?

And she says,

Oh my gosh.

And mind you,

It's been about five or 10 minutes at the most that it took us that long to change the state,

Which is nothing.

She's been living in this other state for a couple months.

So she said,

I really feel different.

And I said,

Okay.

So how do you feel?

Like what's true now?

And she says,

You know,

I'm still worried about some things,

But I think I'm okay.

She says,

I don't think I'm going crazy.

And I don't think this.

And I don't think that.

I said,

Okay,

Good.

Good.

And I said,

Well,

Is there anything?

I want to stop here because there's a number eight that I sometimes do add in.

And I did add in this last week with clients.

She'd come in and said,

You know,

I hate my job and I don't know how to work with this company and she's so upset.

And I had taken her through a very similar thing that I just shared with you all.

And I said,

Okay.

And so at this point in time,

She says,

Well,

I think I still hate my job and my codependency gets the best of me in my job and blah,

Blah,

Blah.

So she still had a couple of those that were fact and truth,

Which actually are still stories,

But sometimes that adolescent won't let go.

So I said,

Okay,

This is when we want to observe our thoughts.

Okay.

And you know,

We hear this all the time,

Observe your thoughts,

Detach from thoughts,

Et cetera,

Et cetera.

But I find that it's really hard for us to do that.

And people go,

Oh,

I think I understand.

So what I did with her is I said,

Okay,

How does it make you feel to say my codependency gets the best of me every day?

And she says,

Well,

It feels heavy.

I don't like how it feels,

Et cetera,

Et cetera.

And I said,

Okay.

I said,

Now take my codependency gets the best of me and I'm tired every day and now paint it on my wall over here.

Just paint those words on the wall.

She said,

Okay.

I said,

Okay,

Now read them out louder to yourself.

I don't care.

And she did.

And she said,

Oh,

I said,

Now how does it feel?

She goes,

Well,

I don't feel it in me anymore.

I feel it like it's outside of me.

I said,

Exactly.

There you go.

And I said,

Now look at the words that are painted so beautifully on the wall.

Take out all the spaces and make them all just a bunch of letters.

And she did.

And she said,

Well,

No,

That's weird.

She says,

It's just a bunch of letters.

I said,

Yeah,

It was no meaning,

Right?

She says,

Yeah.

I said,

Well,

There's your thought.

And she started laughing.

And she said,

Oh my gosh.

She said,

That's not,

I don't have any emotion around that anymore.

And I said,

Yes,

Yes,

Yes,

That's so true.

So I said,

Okay,

So are there any lingering emotions that you need to step into?

She said,

No,

Not even one.

I said,

Fabulous.

Now,

I said,

This is actually,

Number nine would be feel any emotions if they're there.

Number 10,

And you can kind of flip nine and 10 around.

Now I said to her,

Okay.

And I said this to everybody.

This is typical of what I would ask somebody.

Now that you're in this brand new state,

What is your new truth on what's going on in your life?

Tell me your new truth.

And this client with the codependency said,

I actually think I might like my job after all.

And I can see it.

We talked about seeing it through new eyes or a new lens and a new perspective using that.

And she liked that.

I said,

Okay,

So now you went from hating your job and wanting to quit.

So now you actually like your job.

She said,

Yes,

So weird.

And I said,

Good.

And I said to the other client,

Another one that had come in that felt like she was going crazy,

I said,

So tell me what else is true.

Let's find some new truths.

And she said,

Well,

It's true.

I did some drugs in high school.

Yes.

I said,

What else?

And she said,

But I think I'm okay now.

And then I offered to her,

I said,

You know,

What I believe is true is that we change the brain every seven years.

Our blood,

Our bone,

Our thought,

Everything about the whole physical body changes and the body's always striving to heal itself.

And she hasn't done drugs since high school.

I said,

Have you done any drugs since high school?

My guess is that your brain is recovering.

And I don't know what's true.

I said,

But let's pick the thought that feels best.

I said,

My guess is that your brain is probably recovering and has recovered and is actually pretty healthy.

I said,

Does that feel good to you or bad or how do you take that?

And she said,

I love that truth.

I said,

We'll take it.

And she,

I said,

So give me your new truth.

And she said,

My brain is actually okay.

And I said,

Good.

And she was in fact,

It's healthy.

I said,

Excellent.

Excellent.

So that's the last piece is we want to then adopt the new truth.

What's the new truth?

And again,

If there's anything still lingering in the body and someone,

If someone were to say like,

I still have a little bit of sadness,

It feels like I'll say,

Okay,

Now let's feel it.

We're feeling one emotion at a time versus this,

All of these emotions coming in at once and we're imploding and we're collapsing all over the place and we can't think straight and the ruminating thoughts,

Ruminating thoughts.

And a couple of people that came in have panic attacks and were in major,

Major anxiety when they walked in the door.

They left balanced,

Peaceful,

And just so calm.

And this does not,

These things that I just offered you guys,

10 of them,

They do not take long.

That's what I love.

They do not take long,

But we have to practice them.

But every single client that came in when they left,

They said,

Yeah,

I'm just going to keep practicing.

And I give this as homework to different people and I'll say,

Okay,

So for you,

What did you like best?

I like that mindfulness thing you did with the plant.

Okay,

Then I want you to practice that every day.

So in order to stay out of imploding,

We really want to learn these things.

But again,

That energy field,

Clearing the energy field is so important,

Especially the empaths of the world.

I mean,

I know we just take on energy and we don't mean to,

So it's important that we stay really grounded so we don't do that and that we stay mindful of is this mine or is this yours or is it someone else's?

Pick your favorite one or pick your favorite two or three and start practicing them or pick all 10.

It doesn't matter to me,

But start practicing them every day.

I check in with myself about my breath and I'll ask myself,

Am I breathing?

Hold on.

You know,

What's going on?

I'm a little stressed about this.

Let me just check in and put my hand on my belly right below my belly button and I take a few deep breaths.

I go,

Okay,

Good.

I'm back on track.

That Indian stomp,

I do it every day.

I do it every single day.

I step outside.

I'm with my dogs.

I just stand there and stomp around.

I shake my hands off.

I'm brushing my body off.

There's no reason not to do that every day.

I don't want anyone else's energy on me.

I just want mine.

That has helped me to stay so much cleaner than I ever did in the past.

That's that everybody.

I hope you enjoyed these 10 ways to get you out of imploding.

We all do this.

This imploding,

When that mind gets going,

It starts feeding us those stories and assumptions and that adolescent gets scared and it just keeps going faster,

Faster,

Faster,

Faster,

Faster,

And then all of our stuff can kick in like the anxiety,

Panic attacks,

All of these things,

The love addict thing,

The codependency.

We want to reach out and fix somebody.

We want to reach out.

We want to reach out.

We want to reach out and the brain loops and we cannot get out of it.

This helps to stop the looping.

This does.

But again,

Pick out one or two or three or all that you can do on a daily basis.

This will help to reset not only your mind,

But remember we're working with the body too.

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Hope you enjoyed 10 ways to get out of imploding.

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Come visit me in San Diego Friday,

October 12th.

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Fabulous weekend.

That's all I've got for you today.

I am Michelle Shelfa,

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Have a beautiful week,

Everybody.

Reviews

Thank you for your wisdom and your generosity in sharing it.
You bless me with your advise
Looking forward to catch one of your live sessions
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Amazing! So simple yet so powerful! Thank you so much. Love and hugs! 💗💗💗

Thank you. Feeling sad now but I think that was the underlying emotion that was feeding my inadequacies about work. Got work to do but got me out of my ruminating phase

As always Michelle, wonderful words of simple wisdom. Thank you soo much.

I've been really overwhelmed with work and my personal life lately and it keeps getting more intense each day. I knew I needed help this morning after spending the entire night of not sleeping with my my thoughts getting away from me like a freight train on a collision course. I found this talk and while listening all I could think was "omg this is me!!!!!"

Thank you so much for this. This is perfect timing and the universe telling me that I've got this. I'm looking forward to utilizing the steps that you've laid out here. This was really amazing and thank you very much for putting your talk out there for folks like me. Thank you!!!!!!

where have you been all my life...
Many hospital stays, (MANY) over 40+ years. Medications, counslors, retreats, and less than 25 mins I'm laughing my a#* off.
I say this because by the time I was concentrating on "YOUR" plant it hit me. It's not my worries, I'm ADULTING for my 22 year old sons life. Now I'm a magnet worrying about my 25 year old daughter and her 2 children. Do they need anything, maybe I should go see them instead of calling. Of course now my 28 year old daughter who has her BS in nursing. ER nurse who has a AWESOME firefighter husband with my 2 red headed grandchildren needs me.
Or do they, maybe they don't have time for me cause I'm doing everything for my son who just graduated from WVU. He's a probation officer.
Wait what about my husband's BP, it's running high. He's a DAV. What...what what.
For me I don't feel like I'm going crazy, done been there. I just want to find a hole. But then there's where's the shovel.
Thank you I plan on listening to this podcast a few

Amazing!
I loved all 10 ideas and will use them!
Thank you so much!

Absolutely brilliant. Ticks all the boxes.

Some great tips for stopping rumination and getting rid of negative energy. Thanks so much. As an empath these tips are highly valuable to me and I will be using them regularly to let things go that no longer serve me. Very grateful to you for sharing your wisdom. 🙏❤️

Another great one. Thank you for all the amazing tips. Some I have been doing for years. I love the Indian stomp. That one is going to be daily as needed throughout the day. I am a sensitive empath on every level with codependency habits. 😊💜.

Very informative with great ideas to combat anxiety! Thank you!

Brilliant! I listened to this on my morning power walk and just loved how simple yet quirky the tips were. My kinda style. Hahah. I'm an empath too so this was incredibly helpful for me. Thanks Michelle, have an amazing day. ♡

So much good information to really process and digest. Thank you Michelle!

Interesting and helpful! Thank you.

Thank you Michelle!

Love it💫💃stompin and breathing. Thank you excellent teaching.