Why Your Brain Feels Overloaded: Understanding Cognitive Load in Everyday Life

I want to start by saying that this is not a post to complain.

Even as I sit here writing it, part of me worries that it might sound that way. And while I am a therapist and mental health advocate, I am certainly not exempt from being human.

This past summer was probably one of the hardest seasons I've experienced when it came to simply being a capable human being. And that is saying a lot because I pride myself on being capable, even if sometimes it's more like chaotically capable.