Frozen by Your To-Do List? How to Break Free From Overwhelm

Wellness Blueprints: Nourish Your Roots with Jess

Feeling paralyzed by your to-do list?
When life gets chaotic—whether you’re prepping for travel, juggling family, or dealing with daily stress—overwhelm can trigger a freeze response in your nervous system. Suddenly, the simple tasks become impossible, and you're stuck in a loop of inaction.

In this week’s episode of Wellness Blueprints: Nourish Your Roots, I dive into how my nervous system freezes when I’m overwhelmed and share science-backed strategies that help me get unstuck, including:

• Understanding the Freeze Response – Why your body shuts down when you’re overwhelmed and how this impacts your mental clarity.
• The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique – A simple tool you can use anywhere to reboot your brain and start moving again.
• Brain Dumping – How getting all the chaos out of your head and onto paper can help you regain control.
• Vagus Nerve Activation – I share how simple actions like humming, singing, and deep breathing bring calm, clarity, and focus back.
• Body Doubling – What it is, how it works, and how having someone by your side (even virtually) can increase motivation and productivity.
• Pro Tips for Managing Summer Chaos – How to handle travel prep, family stress, and social obligations without losing your cool.
• My Personal Hacks for Overwhelm – What I do when my to-do list makes me want to crawl back into bed (and how I get back to work!).

Plus, I’ll share practical tools and tips to deal with summer chaos, sleep disruptions, and hormonal fluctuations that make everything worse. The good news? You don’t have to be perfect—you just have to be present and mindful. Listen now for actionable steps to take back control, one small step at a time.

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