Finding Meaning Through Caregiving, Loss, and Writing with Nickolas Butler

Eight years ago I was completely overwhelmed. My life was full with good things, a challenging career, two teenage boys, a growing podcast, and a mother who needed care, but I had a persistent feeling of I can't keep doing this. But I valued everything I was doing and I wasn't willing to let any of them go, and the advice to do less only made me more overwhelmed. That's when I stumbled into something I now call the still point method, a way of using small moments throughout my day to change not how much I had to do, but how I felt while I was doing it. And so I wanted to build something I wish I'd had eight years ago so you don't have to stumble towards an answer.

That something is now here and it's called overwhelm is optional. Tools for When You Can't Do Less. It's an email course that fits into moments you already have taking less than 10 minutes total a day. It isn't about doing less, it's about relating differently to what you do. I think it's the most useful tool we've ever built.

The launch price is $29. If life is too full but you still need relief from overwhelm, check out Overwhelm is Optional. Go to oneyoufeed.net slash overwhelm. That's oneyoufeed.net slash overwhelm. Surely a writer is thinking about their characters and trying to create authentic composites that are based on psychologically real things.

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