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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you start to get overwhelmed, acknowledge the feelings, then redirect your behavior to something else, like laundry or read a book or leave the house for a walk.  I used binging to numb my emotions but finally figured out how to feel my emotions.  It's hard if that has been your coping mechanism.  Talk therapy doesn't always work, I have tried it.  I just had to grow out of the behavior.  Good luck!  You are not alone.[/quote]

When you're overwhelmed... redirect to something like laundry??? This is literally WHY I drink. Because as a mom, my "down time" is considered things like "Take time to shower" or "do laundry." Good Lord, it's 2023, can we do better?[/quote]

+1, agree that's not helpful. This is why everyone needs a list of healthy or at least neutral options for relieving stress and giving themselves a break. Listen to a podcast or audio book, take a walk, spend time with your pet(s), make some art, take a shower or bath, take a nap, do some yoga, play music (either to listen to or literally play music on an instrument), knit or crochet, etc. Something for yourself that is NOT about taking care of others or your home. But also that isn't addictive, numbing behavior like binge eating, compulsive shopping, drugs or alcohol.

Though I will admit that my go-to move in times of overwhelm is to do one or more of the things I just listed and then, when I feel more calm and less burnt out, to do a few easier items on my mile long to-do list (like, say, start or fold a load of laundry) because a key part of handling the overwhelm of parenting for me is to accomplish a few things so that I don't feel like what I need to get done is insurmountable. But I have to decompress and take care of myself first. The whole point of this thread is what do you do when you hit a wall, and no, the advice cannot be "laundry." Laundry is part of the wall.[/quote]

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