Mommy Writes Fantasy: A Writing Blog

July 24, 2025

Prompt: How can you find relief when you're feeling overwhelmed? Write about this in your Blog entry today.


I like to try and get outside when I'm feeling overwhelmed. Just standing outside on my deck and listening to the birds singing, someone mowing the lawn a few yards over, and feeling the wind and sunshine immediately calms my emotions. If it's raining, sometimes that's even better. I'll open my back door kitchen window and listen to the rain.

Sometimes the cause of my overwhelm is my curious children and their loud, repetitive questions. I get sensory overwhelmed very easily, so sometimes I ask them to whisper their questions, or raise hands and speak one at a time. If I'm extremely overwhelmed and on the verge of snapping (usually because my children are arguing or fighting with each other), I will often send them outside to play. It resets their nervous system as well as mine.

Usually turning down the volume on external stimuli and doing my best to create a calm environment around me helps me recreate calm within myself.

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