Maxed Out: Understanding your emotional & cognitive load
Event Description:
You know that feeling of being exhausted before you've even done anything? Or finishing a full day and not knowing why you feel so drained? Chances are this has become your new "normal".
Most high-performing women are running two invisible engines at once: emotional load (the feelings, expectations and responsibilities you hold for others) and cognitive load (the mental tabs constantly open, tracking, planning, anticipating). Together they quietly drain your energy, your clarity and your capacity - until you're running at 60% on a 100% schedule.
This 2-hour guided experience by Véa is here to change that. We'll use neuroscience-backed frameworks, mindfulness exercises, journaling and visualisation to help you recognise what you're carrying, understand why it's affecting you the way it is and leave with real tools to redistribute the load - not just cope with it.
Three reasons that make this event unique:
1. Decode your internal signals: learn to use emotions as data, not something to push through or suppress, backed by neuroscience not surface-level wellness tips.
2. Walk away with a practical toolset: real-time techniques for nervous system regulation, emotional & cognitive load management and grounded decision-making you can use immediately.
3. Create mental clarity from the inside out: filter out cognitive noise, reduce emotional friction and leave feeling regulated, not just informed.
Facilitator/Speaker Bio:
Véa is a neuroscience-led & AI-powered platform built specifically around the female mind - helping women understand their emotional patterns, cognitive load and behavioural triggers through reflective journaling. We are building the first-ever emotional operating system for women by women.
This session is facilitated by Katrina Zalcmane and Zahra Bhatti, co-founders of Véa, who bring both deep wellness industry experience and their own lived experience navigating burnout, emotional load and building resilience as women in leadership.
"Your emotional load affects your capacity. Your cognitive load affects your clarity. What you carry quietly is the loudest thing in the room." - Véa