Overwhelm is Optional
- This is the podcast for big-hearted, highly driven professionals who want their life back.
- Each week, we explore ways to gently rebel against the idea that overwhelm and exhaustion are just the price you pay for success. You don’t have to push through—it’s time to work with ease, reclaim your energy, and create the life you want.
- 💡 Meet Heidi Marke
I’m Heidi, a Coach, Teacher, Podcaster, and Author. Having painfully burned out—losing my career, confidence, health, and financial stability—I discovered a better way. Now, I quietly lead The Gentle Rebellion, helping you to:- Stop pushing through overwhelm.
- Redefine success on your own terms.
- Reclaim your time, energy, and life.
Thank you to purpleplanet.com for the music.
Overwhelm is Optional
Episode 95: Struggling with Seasonal Overwhelm?
Struggling with Seasonal Overwhelm?
If you’re struggling with seasonal overwhelm and feeling like we’re hurtling through time and space at a faster and faster rate as the days get shorter and shorter then tomorrow’s episode of The Overwhelm is Optional podcast is for you.
If you feel like the overwhelm has ramped up as you rush to finish your never-ending to-do list so that you can take some time off over Christmas, then this episode is for you.
If you’re asking yourself how you will manage to take any time off over Christmas (and perhaps even assuming you just won’t be able to - yet again) then this episode has a way of turning that assumption around in a way that you might find helpful.
Feedback and requests for episodes on a particular aspect of overwhelm to:
heidi@heidimarke.co.uk
Want the fastest most effective way to turn your overwhelm into the joy, satisfaction and ease you're working so hard for? Book a Curiosity Call and discover what it's like to be coached by me. I look forward to meeting you.
Three things I’m currently offering:
The Gently Rebellious One Minute Journal, available on Amazon – a clear, practical way to keep in touch with the guidance of your Heartfelt Wish List every day of the year in just one minute.
February Focus – uplevel your focus and become quietly unstoppable. Explore how to stay focused on what matters most to you, your Heartfelt Wish List, your way. From practical, research-based tools to deep emotional motivations, this course is for you if you’d appreciate the opportunity to be taught and coached by me in a small group of like-minded lovely people to kick-start your year.
Manifest Your Dreams in 2026 – a special New Year one-to-one bespoke coaching package.
Whatever you decide, I hope you decide to find a way to stay focused on what matters most to you.
This podcast was created to help big-hearted, driven professionals break free from overwhelm and experience more clarity, ease, and joy.
But here’s the exciting news… I’ve moved beyond overwhelm.
If you’ve been listening and resonating with this message, you’ll love what comes next.
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