The World Is Ending But My Inbox Is Full: How to Survive Daily Life in This News Cycle
Daily Status Lately: Currently Dissociating; Also Have a 2PM
Increasingly, over the last few years, it can feel impossible to see the constant onslaught of bad news AND still have to go do our silly little jobs for our very needed paycheck. Neurodivergent people, in particular, often have a complicated brain relationship with not just external stimuli, but also:
Feeling overwhelmed by things we can’t control
A deep capacity for empathy
Tendency to put ourselves in other people’s shoes or need to relate to understand
Feeling increasingly anxious, which can fuel some of the worst stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and the world
So how, exactly, are we supposed to keep living and functioning like a “normal” person when things feel so heavy?
The reality is that nothing about this is normal, and it’s okay to not feel normal in abnormal times. But whether or not it’s “okay” to feel this way often does not have any bearing on our ability to both feel this way and continue functioning as a human being with a job and responsibilities to ourselves and others. Sure, it’s okay to not feel great right now…but what about when the “not feeling great” starts to creep into our ability to do our jobs without getting in trouble, feeding ourselves (and our families!), sleeping at night, doing our chores, etc?
In this interactive workshop, we’re gonna talk about it: Why everything feels terrible, why it can often feel completely debilitating, and how to move through it. You’ll learn:
How constant chaos outside our control pushes trigger buttons for our neurodivergent nervous systems
How overwhelm and anxiety can feel like it controls our brains instead of the other way around
How to use the TGIF framework (not what you think it means) on days where the whole world feels Just Too Much but you still have tasks you gotta complete on your to-do list
What the “Minimum Viable Day” means and how to use it in the middle of overwhelm
How to interrupt destructive, dysfunctional patterns and replace them with something more functional
Like all Chief Executive Dysfunction workshops, this workshop is not designed to Fix You, and it won’t help you Care Less or Ignore It All or Become Okay With the Bad Stuff. It is designed to help you build your toolbox so that you have backups, options, and solutions for when your brain and body feel difficult to manage, like they’re steering your ship and not the other way around.
Join us for this free virtual workshop & leave with some practical ways to reregulate your nervous system, recenter your brain, and find it in you to respond to that email and go do your laundry in the middle of All The Things You Can’t Control.