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Taming Modern Life Overload

Living A Full Life

Living A Full Life
Taming Modern Life Overload
Dec 16, 2025 Season 4 Episode 6
Full Life Chiropractic

Feeling like life keeps pressing the gas even when you’re trying to slow down? Dr. Enrico Dolcecore unpacks why our brains struggle in a world of constant notifications, compressed attention spans, and zero recovery time—then lays out a simple path to regain calm, clarity, and control. We start with a quick tour of the autonomic nervous system to explain why chronic fight-or-flight shows up as restless sleep, irritability, and a racing mind. From there, we dig into six overload traps: digital dopamine loops, invisible emotional stressors, overcommitment culture, environmental clutter and noise, nervous system burnout, and the missing art of true recovery.

You’ll hear practical fixes you can use today: digital boundaries that actually stick, micro-journaling to name and release emotions, the Rule of Three to stop schedule sprawl, and a 10-minute nightly reset to quiet visual chaos. We get hands-on with nervous system regulation—simple breath work patterns, grounding, cold exposure, and vagus nerve activation—to shift your body from survival to safety. We also share how to build rest you can count on: a morning calm window with sunlight and hydration, single-input focus blocks to end multitasking, analog hobbies that restore attention, and an evening routine that signals your brain to power down.

To make it doable, we wrap with a 24-hour overload reset you can start tomorrow: no phone on waking, one screen-free task at midday, and a digital sunset with a brief home reset before bed. If you’re a busy parent, a stretched professional, or anyone feeling the constant pull of modern life, this conversation offers a clear, compassionate blueprint to feel grounded again. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a review with the one habit you’ll start this week—we’ll cheer you on and answer your questions in a future episode.

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