When Your Cup Overflows

Some days I feel like every mother I know is ridden with stress and overwhelm. This type of parenthood seems to be slowly becoming the norm. In today’s episode (episode 178) we are talking about what happens when your cup overflows. When your cup overflows the contents spill out and splash on the people who are nearest and dearest to you.



What’s splashing out of your cup? Happiness? Gratitude? Stress? Overwhelm?



What sort of helping hand do you need to get your emotional well-being on a path to balance and health?







Show Notes/Links:



* The Mental Unload



Where to go if you need mental health support:



* Get Immediate Help* Suicide Helpline* Mental Health Challenges – What to Look For



When Your Cup Overflows – Episode Transcription



Thank you for tuning into the Simple Families podcast and
welcome to episode 178. Today we’re talking about what happens when your cup
overflows. November is usually associated with a month of gratitude and
sometimes when I think about the expression when my cup runneth over or when my
cup overflows, I think about my cup overflowing with gratitude or my cup
overflowing with happiness or with love. And when that’s the case, when I feel
like my cup is overflowing all this goodness, life feels good, life feels
light. But that’s not all our cup can overflow with. As parents so often our
cups overflow with stress and with worries and with fears. Our cup overflows
with well, overwhelm. And I think this is the most difficult type of clutter
for us to tackle. And today we’re talking about why, why is it so hard? And
also why is it so important?



My Cup
Runneth Over…With Stress and Overwhelm



Now when your cup runs over, whatever’s inside of it,
whether it be love, gratitude, overwhelm, stress, it spills. And you have to
ask yourself, where does your cup spill onto? It spills onto the people around
you. It spills onto your kids, it spills onto your partner, to your extended family,
your coworkers. And if your cup is in fact overflowing with happiness and love,
you’re going to be spilling happiness and love all over the place. But if your
cup is overflowing with stress and overwhelm like it is for so, so many of us,
you’re going to be spilling stress and overwhelm.



And I think one of the huge misconceptions in parenthood
is that your own personal wellbeing doesn’t have an impact on the people around
you. There’s this expression that as long as my kids are happy, that’s all that
matters. It doesn’t work like that. I wish it did, but it doesn’t work like
that. We can’t sacrifice our happiness for our children because of this
problem. And when we do, when our stress and overwhelm builds up, when we’re
sacrificing our happiness for someone else, it’s unavoidable that our cup is
going to overflow and it’s going to start spilling out onto those people that
we love, the people that we are so firmly and so adamantly trying to protect
and make happy.



You Can’t Pour
from a Spewing Cup



So as many of you know,