Dear Cali Chica:

You wrote that you “want to learn how to remind (yourself) not to feel the need to ‘over-do’ it… what are some ways I can help myself do that?”-

I know of only one way, and that is to notice when you “sense some guilt and anxiety” and then remind yourself to not over-do it. Remind yourself not to not feel the need to overdo it, but to not do the behavior that follows this feeling, this motivation.

It is an exhausting practice. It is exhausting to interrupt a habit like this, again and again and yet again. Isn’t it?

anita