HOLISTIC - Emotions are signals

Fear, stress, overwhelm are just emotions.

They are feedback mechanisms, and they can either contribute to life or they can contaminate, you get to decide.

These are not threats, they are signals

Here are three steps to create a structure for managing non-resourceful emotional responses.

Please note, mental tools such as the one below are only useful if you use it.

1. Catch it - Nod your head and acknowledge, I’m overwhelmed, stressed, peaking out, and say YES! This changes physiology, (and psychology) if you don’t you open the door for maladaptive responses (sweaty palms, increased heart rate etc., avoiding said task).

2. Check it - Mind where your mind goes. Tell yourself ‘be where my feet are’, press your toes into the ground 6-10 times - this puts you in the moment, not in the anxious future, or the scary miserable past.

3. Change it - The key is learning to manage the signal. Breathwork is the fastest way to downshift your stress response. It creates the mental space to think and act. So draw breath, exhale fear, and breath in confidence, and absolute clarity.

4. Fear isn’t the enemy of 2026 — avoidance is. When you stop resisting emotion and start responding to it with intention, fear becomes information, stress becomes direction, and overwhelm becomes a prompt to slow down and lead yourself. 

Master the signal, and you master the moment.