This episode of Ten Minutes to Less Suffering explores the concept of coherence and what it means to move through life with beliefs, emotions, and actions working together rather than in conflict. It looks at how everyday responsibilities, relationships, and values can create inner fragmentation when different needs pull in opposing directions.

Through a real life example, this episode examines how acknowledging the true cost of a decision can reduce resentment and help people remain participants in their choices rather than victims of them. Coherence does not eliminate difficult decisions or inner conflict, but awareness can soften the experience and reduce emotional exhaustion.

Listeners are invited to reflect on how coherence or its absence shows up in work, family life, creativity, boundaries, and communication. A simple reflective practice is offered to help maintain self respect, clarity, and steadiness during demanding moments.

This episode is for anyone navigating responsibility, burnout, people pleasing, or the challenge of caring for others without losing connection to themselves.

Lastly, you can also follow me on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and LinkedIn. If you are interested in my work, please check out my books, The Gift of Maybe: Finding Hope and Possibility in Uncertain Times (including a new audiobook), A Year Without Men: A 12 Point Guide To Inspire and Empower Women and my new Audiobook, Maybe Everything Is Okay, A Parent's Guide To Less Stress and Worry. Also you can check out my new Maybe Cards: A Path to Stress-Free Living or my new digital Maybe Journal.

Above all, my heartfelt hope is that this podcast has supported your journey of personal growth, helped shift your mindset, reduce stress, built emotional resilience, and brought you less suffering and more joy, clarity, and peace.

Do you feel paralyzed by the fear of making the wrong decision? Decision anxiety can make even small choices feel permanent, risky, and overwhelming. In this episode, you will learn why the mind treats decisions as threats, how fear of uncertainty keeps you stuck, and why most choices are not traps but opportunities for clarity.

This episode explores how to stop overthinking decisions, how to recognize the difference between a truly limiting decision and an adjustable one, and why movement, not certainty, leads to alignment and confidence. You will also be guided through a simple reflection exercise to help you move forward without needing guarantees.

If you are struggling with career decisions, relationship choices, or fear of change, this episode offers practical insight, reassurance, and a gentler way to trust yourself again.

Topics include:
• Decision anxiety and overthinking
• Fear of making the wrong choice
• How to stop feeling stuck
• Trusting yourself in uncertainty
• Why clarity comes after movement
• Letting go of perfection and certainty

Listen now and remember, most decisions give you information, not a verdict on your future.

Poem: Decisions

Decisions are not often standing at the edge of ruin.
Decisions usually stand at the edge of movement.

Our fear tells us this step is final,
that one choice will close every other door,
that if we get it wrong,
we will never recover.

But life does not move in straight lines.
It bends.
It pauses.
It circles back with new information.

Our decisions are not verdicts.
They are not definitions of who we are.
They are simply conversations with the unknown.

We are allowed to learn.
We are allowed to change our minds.
We are allowed to arrive somewhere
and discover it is not where we want to stay.

There is no single moment
where everything is decided.
There is only the next step
and the courage to take it.

And if this choice does not become
what we hoped it would be,
there is still the hope and possibility
that we can have the life we want
from this day forward.

Lastly, you can also follow me on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and LinkedIn. If you are interested in my work, please check out my books, The Gift of Maybe: Finding Hope and Possibility in Uncertain Times (including a new audiobook), A Year Without Men: A 12 Point Guide To Inspire and Empower Women and my new Audiobook, Maybe Everything Is Okay, A Parent's Guide To Less Stress and Worry. Also you can check out my new Maybe Cards: A Path to Stress-Free Living or my new digital Maybe Journal.

Above all, my heartfelt hope is that this podcast has supported your journey of personal growth, helped shift your mindset, reduce stress, built emotional resilience, and brought you less suffering and more joy, clarity, and peace.

Feeling overwhelmed, emotionally drained, or under constant pressure? This episode of Ten Minutes to Less Suffering explores how to stay emotionally balanced when life feels heavy, uncertain, and nonstop. The focus is on stress, anxiety, emotional overload, and the way the nervous system struggles when there is no time to recover.

The episode introduces the idea of capacity, meaning how much inner space is available to think, feel, pause, and respond instead of react. When that space disappears, even small decisions can feel exhausting. Through mindfulness-based insights and simple awareness practices, the episode highlights how emotional pressure builds quietly over time and how creating even a small amount of inner room can reduce suffering.

Key themes include calming the nervous system, reducing anxiety, letting go of self blame, and separating personal identity from current life experiences. The episode also explores how acceptance, compassion, and emotional awareness can restore balance, clarity, and resilience during stressful periods.

This episode is for anyone experiencing stress, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, burnout, or mental exhaustion. It is especially helpful for people navigating uncertainty, carrying unresolved emotional weight, feeling stuck, or seeking mindfulness tools for emotional healing, nervous system regulation, and inner peace.

Poem: The Weight of Holding

There is a weight that does not come from pain,
but from holding.

Holding the past after it is long gone.
Holding the future before it arrives.
Holding ourselves to stories
that say this moment should be different from what it is.

But today
we can set something down.

Not the whole burden,
just one unnecessary thought.
One quiet argument with reality.
One belief that this moment defines us.

And in that small opening,
maybe something shifts.

Breath can return.
The nervous system can soften.
Our hearts can remember
they were never meant to carry everything at once.

We are not what is happening.
We are the space
where it is happening.

And for now,
that can be enough room
for less suffering.

Lastly, you can also follow me on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and LinkedIn. If you are interested in my work, please check out my books, The Gift of Maybe: Finding Hope and Possibility in Uncertain Times (including a new audiobook), A Year Without Men: A 12 Point Guide To Inspire and Empower Women and my new Audiobook, Maybe Everything Is Okay, A Parent's Guide To Less Stress and Worry. Also you can check out my new Maybe Cards: A Path to Stress-Free Living or my new digital Maybe Journal.

Above all, my heartfelt hope is that this podcast has supported your journey of personal growth, helped shift your mindset, reduce stress, built emotional resilience, and brought you less suffering and more joy, clarity, and peace.