How to Set Boundaries Without Guilt/Stop People-Pleasing and Prevent Burnout
Release Date: 10/10/2025
When Problems Show Up, It Doesn't Mean Life Is Falling Apart
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
When problems show up in your life, it is easy to believe that everything is going in the wrong direction. Stress builds, anxiety takes over, and suddenly it feels like life is falling apart, even when many things are actually working. In this episode of 10 Minutes to Less Suffering, I talk about why having problems does not mean your life is bad or broken. We explore why problems are often unrelated, how negative thinking creates stress and exhaustion, and why focusing only on what is wrong can cause us to miss what is right. I also walk you through simple ways to separate your problems,...
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How To Stop Losing Yourself
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
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...
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Decision Anxiety: How To Stop Fearing The Wrong Decision
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
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...
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Emotional Balance Under Pressure: Capacity and Choice
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
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...
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The Key To Finding More Joy in 2026: Right Sizing Our Problems
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
Every year brings challenges, uncertainty, and problems that can feel overwhelming. While it is not possible to control how many problems arise, it is possible to change how much space they take up in daily life. This episode explores the practice of right sizing problems and placing them back into their true proportion so they do not drown out peace, clarity, and joy. Through a personal story and practical reflection, listeners are guided to recognize how fear, uncertainty, and discomfort can quietly expand suffering even when much of life is still working. Listeners will learn simple...
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Manifesting Our Dreams In 2026: Reducing Fear, Stress, and Self Doubt In The New Year
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
How can you manifest your dreams in 2026 while reducing stress and anxiety? This episode of Ten Minutes to Less Suffering offers a grounded self help approach to manifestation that focuses on mindfulness, intuition, gratitude, and emotional resilience. Listeners explore how fear, uncertainty, and the need for control can increase suffering and block clarity. The episode explains how pausing, listening to inner guidance, and staying present can support better decision making and personal growth. A simple “maybe” practice is shared to help quiet self doubt, reduce anxiety, and restore hope...
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Chop Wood, Carry Water in 2025 and 2026: What Is The Moment Asking?
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
This episode of 10 Minutes to Less Suffering explores the Zen teaching “Chop Wood, Carry Water” and what it means to meet life as it is. The focus is on coherence, staying present without fragmenting yourself, and responding to each moment with steadiness rather than fear or control. Listeners will learn how this teaching applies to everyday challenges, success, loss, and uncertainty. The episode offers a simple, practical exercise to help reduce stress, stay grounded, and stop abandoning yourself when life feels overwhelming or unpredictable. This episode supports anyone seeking more...
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How To Keep Perspective When Life Feels Stressful
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
Life can feel heavy when stress, worry, and daily challenges take over our perspective. In this episode of 10 Minutes to Less Suffering, I talk about how easily we lose the larger view of our lives and how that loss of perspective can quietly steal joy, peace, and appreciation for what we have. When we are caught in the moment, even small problems can feel overwhelming. I share simple, practical ways to hold a larger perspective, including acceptance, working with uncertainty, and remembering that everything is always changing. These practices can help daily stress feel lighter and allow space...
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Self Love: A Key To Getting Over Heartbreak And Letting Go Of The Past
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
Do you ever feel that if you understood your past better, especially the heartbreaks, breakups, or painful relationships, you would finally feel at peace? Many of us believe that if we could gather every detail of what happened, why someone acted the way they did, or why love fell apart, our stress and anxiety would disappear. While insight and processing our feelings are necessary, emotional healing also requires self love, acceptance, and the courage to let go of what we cannot know. This encore episode explores how releasing the need to know and the need to be right is an important part of...
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How To Stay Aligned When You Feel Like Everything Is Pulling You Off Center
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
Feeling pulled in a million directions? In today’s fast-paced world, it is easy to lose your center, your clarity, and your sense of who you truly are. This episode explores two powerful concepts that can help you reconnect with yourself: resonance and coherence. You will learn why certain people, ideas, and experiences resonate with you, and why resonance alone does not always mean something is healthy or aligned. You will also discover the deeper state of coherence, where your mind, heart, body, and energy move together in harmony. This is the space where grounded decision making, calm,...
info_outlineFeeling drained from saying "yes" when you really want to say "no"? You're not alone. In this episode on setting healthy boundaries, I explore the guilt, fear, and discomfort that come with honoring your true needs—and how mastering this skill can completely transform your life and relationships.
You'll learn:
● Practical ways to stop people-pleasing and prevent burnout
● How to protect your energy and reduce daily stress
● Techniques for building respect-based relationships instead of resentment-driven ones
● Why discomfort is actually a sign you're choosing yourself
Perfect for anyone struggling with work-life balance, relationship stress, or feeling overwhelmed by others' demands.
Boundaries and Peace Affirmation
When I say yes to everything, I drift away from myself.
When I pause, when I breathe, I come home again.
Discomfort is not punishment.
It is the feeling of choosing myself.
It is the space between suffering and peace.
My boundaries are love.
My rest is power.
My honesty is freedom.
When I honor my boundaries, I return to the center of who I am.
From that place, what I give is true, authentic and rare.
Each time I choose myself, I return with more love to give, more calm to share, and the world feels a little more whole.
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.