Ep. 241: Emotional Clutter: The Dish on the Counter That Made You Snap

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I want to paint a picture for you.

It's a Tuesday. Or a Thursday. Or honestly any day of the week…because the day doesn't really matter. What matters is that it has been a lot. The mental load has been running since before you opened your eyes. You've handled seventeen things before noon, most of which were invisible to everyone around you. You're behind on something. You're worried about something else. You're carrying a conversation from yesterday that didn't go the way you hoped and a conversation from next week that you're already dreading.

And then someone…your kid, your husband, someone you love does something small.

Leaves a dish on the counter. Asks you a question you've answered a hundred times. Forgets something you mentioned. Says something in a tone that lands wrong. Does the thing they always do that you've asked them not to do.

And something in you just... snaps.

Not a little irritated. Not mildly frustrated. Snaps. The reaction is bigger than the moment. You can feel it even as it's happening: this is too much, this is disproportionate, this is not actually about the dish, and you cannot stop it.

And then it passes. And the shame arrives.

Sound familiar?

Let’s talk about what’s really happening here. 

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