How To Keep Perspective When Life Feels Stressful

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 for gratitude and possibility, even during difficult moments.

In this episode, I explore
• Why stress narrows our perspective
• How daily challenges can feel heavier than they need to
• How acceptance can soften difficult moments
• How the maybe mindset can reduce anxiety
• How to hold pain and gratitude at the same time

This episode is for anyone feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or weighed down by life. You do not have to deny your feelings to find perspective. You can feel what you feel and still stay open to joy, meaning, and hope.

This is an encore episode and an important reminder that even when life feels hard, a larger perspective can help you breathe easier, stay grounded, and remember that you will find your way. And maybe, the best is yet to come.

Poem: A Larger View

This moment feels heavy.
It asks for all of your attention.

But life is bigger than this moment.
Bigger than this worry.
Bigger than what feels unresolved.

You have been here before.
You have doubted.
You have worried.
And still, you found your way.

Hold what hurts
without letting it take everything with it.

Let this moment exist
without letting it define your whole day
or your whole life.

There is love here too.
There is something steady beneath the noise.

You do not need to solve everything now.
You only need to widen the view.

This will pass.
Something else will come.

And maybe, even now,
everything is still okay.

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.