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This blog was originally sent as an email newsletter on January 4, 2024, with the subject line: unsubscribing from overwhelm. Want to receive these blog posts directly in your inbox? You can opt-in to Maegan’s email list at the bottom of this page.

Happy New Year!

This year, I’m continuing my quest to opt out of urgency, decondition from the toxicity of colonial capitalism, and help you feel better in your life and business.

To start the year on the right foot, I’m sharing one of my best and easiest tips for relieving stress and overwhelm → unsubscribing from things that make you feel bad. 

We live in an era of information overload. 

Much of the information we’re exposed to is unavoidable. You can’t open your laptop or walk through the grocery store without absorbing news headlines and advertisements. 

As if that weren’t enough, we seek more information by subscribing to magazines, signing up for email lists, following people on social media, etc. We’re heaping spoonful after spoonful of information spaghetti onto our already overflowing dinner plates. 🤢

While some of this information makes us feel good and inspired, when we’re burned out, many of these messages make us feel like a steaming pile of 💩.

👎 Social posts that make you feel like you don’t have enough
👎 Emails that make you feel like you don’t do enough
👎 Coaches who make you feel like you don’t know enough

We feel helpless, overwhelmed, and afraid we’ll miss out on something important if we don’t consume everything we can get our eyes on. When we’re swept up in information, it’s easy to forget we have control over the people and messages we allow into our consciousness.

We forget we can unsubscribe from information sources that make us feel bad! 

Unsubscribing is so easy—just a few clicks will do the trick! 

Here’s a simple 3-step strategy you can easily integrate into your daily routine: 

👎 Notice when something makes you feel bad.
❌ Unsubscribe from that person’s content.
🥂 Celebrate your newfound mental and emotional freedom! 

“Unsubscribing” could look like unsubscribing from an email list, unfollowing someone on social media, canceling a subscription, or exiting a coaching relationship that no longer serves you. 

That applies to my content, too! 

I sincerely hope my emails make you feel better, but if I start to rub you the wrong way or my message isn’t what you need to hear right now, you should unsubscribe and get my voice out of your head.

Can you unsubscribe from one thing today? 

I want you to experience how simple and relieving it is to limit the amount of stress-inducing information taking up valuable real estate in your exhausted brain! 

Practice this strategy every day to gradually reduce the messages that make you feel like you’re not enough, and then bask in the glow of feeling happier, calmer, and less burned out than ever before.