Lauryn Bosstick On Nervous System Regulation Practices & Building Routines To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed

The following podcast is a Dear Media production. She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now, Lauren Everts and Michael Bostick are bringing you along for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the Skinny Confidential, him and her. Today, we're discussing overstimulation. I wanted to do a bite sized episode on feeling overstimulated. Because I think with all of the lights, and the phone, and the computer, and the television and the news and the content, a lot of us are feeling overstimulated. And I wanted to tell you guys how I self regulate when I feel overstimulated. I really try to use the overstimulation as information. So if I'm feeling like that, there's a good chance that I am taking on too much, and I need to take a step back and self regulate. So I use it as like a guide of where I need to go. Okay? So that's, like, the first thing that I do. So, okay, let's say I feel stimulated on a Friday. I'll come home. I will put my phone in the laundry room and turn it off immediately. That's the first step. I don't wanna look at my phone. I don't wanna deal with it. It goes on airplane mode and gets turned off. I don't like to walk into my home in front of my kids on my phone. I feel like it's dismissive. And we can all remember a time where you've been out to dinner with someone and they pick up their phone and they're talking to you as they're scrolling and they're not looking you in the eyes, and it doesn't feel good. And so I don't wanna do that when it comes to my children. I wanna walk in fully present. So that's the first step, is, like, the phone is away. Gotta have that. The second step is I turn on really, like, low frequency music. I am a huge Stan Getz fan. If you know, you know. He is very vintage. But the music just puts me in a mood that is the right mood when I'm feeling like too much is going on. It's a little bit of, like, Bossa Nova jazz. It's really light. It's like background music. It's not too much. The last thing that I wanna do is, like, listen to some crazy loud rock and roll rap music when I'm already feeling overstimulated. So the music goes on. I'll light a candle. I'll be really present for my kids in that moment. And then after I put my kids to bed, I have, like, a whole setup. So we don't turn on the light upstairs in our house. There's no lights in my kids' room that get turned on at night. There's no lights in our room. There's not even really lights in the hallway. I got these, like, little night lights that I plug into the …