When overwhelm hits, our first instinct is often to push harder—to make more lists, to power through with stress and willpower. But stress can’t take us where we truly want to go. Overwhelm isn’t a sign of failure; it’s the body’s way of saying we’ve reached capacity and need to return to presence. By slowing down, softening into our senses, and treating even one small action as sacred, we discover that clarity and ease arise not from force, but from surrender.