Christine Arylo - Overwhelmed and Over It: Embrace Your Power to Stay Centered and Sustained in a Chaotic World

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Copyright 2020 by Christine Arylo

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Arylo, Christine, date, author.

Title: Overwhelmed and over it : embrace your power to stay centered and sustained in a chaotic world / Christine Arylo.

Description: Novato, California : New World Library, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: A former corporate executive examines why many working women feel exhausted and overwhelmed as they try to balance the competing demands of career and family. The author diagnoses the roots of the problem and proposes pragmatic methods to integrate work, relationships, health, and spirituality into a harmonious whole. -- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020025618 (print) | LCCN 2020025619 (ebook) | ISBN 9781608686773 (paperback) | ISBN 9781608686780 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Work-life balance. | Work and family. | Women--Job stress. | Self-realization in women.

Classification: LCC HD4904.25 .A758 2020 (print) | LCC HD4904.25 (ebook) | DDC 650.1082--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020025618

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020025619

First printing, October 2020

ISBN 978-1-60868-677-3

Ebook ISBN 978-1-60868-678-0

Printed in Canada on 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

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For Bonnie: may your spirit and light continue

to open hearts through the words written in these pages.

For all women whove felt the burden of too much with too little:

may we find the courage, power, and wisdom to create

a different way, for ourselves and the generations to come.

For the planet and her people: may we be free,

may we know peace, may we trust that choosing

the path of harmony will always lead us to a better world.

Praise for Overwhelmed & Over It

There are many aha moments in this enlightening book that take us beyond the same work/life balance and time-management strategies that have resulted in our doing more with less for far too long. With a combination of insight, honesty, spirit, and humor, Christine Arylo helps us see and release behaviors that arent working, and embrace wiser choices. An empowering and smart guidebook for any woman who wants to focus her life on what matters and live in greater harmony and with a sense of purpose.

Bobbi Silten, Managing Director of the Shared Value Initiative and former EVP of Global Talent & Sustainability for Gap Inc.

For more than three decades, weve been talking about how overwhelmed women are, yet nothing really changes. Finally, here is a manual for women to show us how to design our most productive and purposeful lives in ways that actually lead to our wholeness and wellness. Overwhelmed & Over It offers women the wisdom to return to the feminine so they can find their innate power to create a sustainable life plan that inspires what they truly want from life. This book is a powerful and transformational blueprint for change!

Kristine Carlson, New York Times bestselling author of Dont Sweat the Small Stuff for Women

In this very accessible book, Christine Arylo has given us a true gift. Affirming wisdom over information, she illuminates a path to liberation not just from burnout itself, but from the structures, beliefs, and paradigms that create and drive it. Embracing the power of self-transformation as the ultimate driver of social and systemic change and interweaving yogic science, feminine wisdom, and corporate know-how, Arylo provides a whole-being approach that goes beyond typical self-care directives.

Leisl M. Bryant, PhD, ABPP, board-certified psychologist

As an executive who spent too many years overworking and overdoing, Ive changed how I view and live my life by following the grounded guidance Christine Arylo teaches. I am now designing my life to fit my deeper goals and natural flow. Her breakthrough approach to overwhelm and to living and working differently has not only transformed my life but has also positively impacted the lives of those around me, from my family to my team at work. Christine shows us the way to live a plentiful and fulfilling life without the stress and burnout that are endemic in the world today.

Barbara Fagan-Smith, CEO, ROI Communication and Living ROI

As I read this book, I felt as though I had a wise mentor guiding me down the path to a richer, fuller, and more authentic life. Now, when I find myself feeling as though Im bearing the weight of my organization, teams, or family, the principles and practices in this book are my support bolster to do things differently. Im eternally grateful for Christines profound and practical life guidance and leadership wisdom. Her fierce and compassionate voice called me home to my heart.

Cheryl Ann Shartle, Vice President of Human Resources, Columbiana Foods, Inc.

This book speaks to the truth we need women and girls to know and trust: that their power as leaders, mothers, partners, and humans comes from their compassionate, courageous, and wise hearts. Christine melds her deep wisdom, visionary structures, and practices into a graceful process to help us discover our unique part, path, and power just in time. Im gifting this brilliant book to every woman I treasure in my life!

Laura Berland, Executive Director, Center for Compassionate Leadership

Both practical and mystical, Christine guides the future of the feminine with a clear voice and a devoted heart. Give this book to your women friends, and give it to yourself. As a woman who has always worked outside the systems as an artist, an entrepreneur, and a community leader, I still find myself in situations where what I am doing, even though I love it, is not sustainable. This book offers a solution I can work with.

Shiloh Sophia, founder of MUSEA: Intentional Creativity

Liberated, energized, and filled with hope! Thats how I felt after reading Overwhelmed & Over It. Blending feminine, yogic, and earth wisdom and down-to-earth practices for daily life, this gem offers women an enlightened path for how to work, live, and manifest.

Rene Peterson Trudeau, speaker and author of