Episode 147: When Life Feels Like A Lot

Episode 147: When Life Feels Like A Lot

From To Help You Heal by Marie Monville

April 14, 2026 · 11 min · Episode 147

About this episode

Marie Monville discusses how to cope with the overwhelming aspects of life and offers gentle strategies for finding balance during heavy seasons.

Maybe you've noticed it too. Life feels like a lot lately. It might be something specific like a health concern, a relationship that's hard, or a financial stress. Or maybe it's not one big thing at all. It's just the accumulation. Six or seven little things that stack up. The news cycle. The uncertainty. The mental load of trying to keep up with everything while also trying to show up well for the people around you. If that's where you are today, you're not alone in it. And you don't have to fix everything this week. When life feels heavy our first instinct is to think everything needs to change. We want a major overhaul, a big plan, a breakthrough moment where it all clicks into place. But that's actually the last thing that helps. What helps is usually something much smaller and a lot kinder than what we were initially thinking. Over the next four weeks I want to talk about three simple things that have made a real difference for me in those heavy seasons. Seeing the good, finding the fun, and hitting the reset button. Not as a checklist, but as gentle invitations back to yourself. See the Good When life gets heavy our brains naturally go to what's wrong, what's missing…

People in this episode

Host: Marie Monville

Topics covered

  • mental health
  • stress management
  • self-care
  • personal growth
  • resilience

Keywords

  • life stress
  • mental load
  • finding joy
  • self-reflection
  • positive thinking

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