logo
episode-header-image
Mar 2020
22m 17s

Handling Chaos

Brooke Castillo
About this episode

When the news keeps changing and your mind won’t settle, where do you begin? In this first installment of Handling Chaos, recorded at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, I share self-coaching tools for navigating fear, anxiety, and uncertainty. We’ll explore limiting constant news consumption, separating facts from predictions, and making room for your emotions so you can approach decisions with greater clarity and consider how you want to help.

Click here to learn more about Accelerated: lifecoachschool.com/accelerated

What You Will Discover:

  • How to notice when checking the news repeatedly is adding to your anxiety and choose other sources of support.
  • Three practices to return to: feeling your emotions, examining your thoughts, and seeking coaching or writing things down.
  • Questions to help direct your energy toward contribution, including “How can I help?” and “Where am I needed?”

Click here to learn more about what The Life Coach School offers: thelifecoachschool.com

Hosted by Master Coach Brooke Hicks, previously Brooke Castillo, The Life Coach School Podcast explores how your thoughts shape your feelings, actions, and results. Discover practical insights on self coaching, thought work, mindset, emotional management, self confidence, overcoming procrastination, achieving goals, and life coach training and certification. Learn how to use the Model to understand your patterns, think deliberately, and create a life that you’re excited to live.

Up next
Jun 2022
ASK ME ANYTHING
Listen in to find out how you can ask me ANY question (even a personal one) that you have. Or, you can simply go to your text message app and send your question to the number 48527 and hit "send," and I will answer it on social media. My social media links: Instagram: https://www ... Show More
1m 36s
Oct 15
#541: Accelerated
Following Brooke’s introduction, this episode features a conversation between two AI-generated hosts, created using Google Gemini Notebook from The Life Coach School’s Accelerated course and marketing materials. What if you could learn the essential tools of life coaching in just ... Show More
35m 50s
Aug 20
#540: The Top 5%
What would it take to operate in the top 5% of your potential? Enrolling in a course or joining a gym doesn’t create results. You have to follow through. In this episode, I challenge you to get honest about the effort your goals require and decide where you’re willing to go all i ... Show More
24m 40s
Recommended Episodes
Aug 2022
How to Stop a Negative Thought Spiral
Has your mind ever felt like a runaway train, creating worst-case scenarios and letting fear take center stage? In today's episode, I'm sharing my best practices for stopping a spiral in it's tracks so you can get back to your best life. 
12m 28s
May 2020
119 - Psychology Tools for COVID Times - The Positive Psychology Podcast
In this episode we look at ways to steer through the crisis while accounting both for the hard and the positive. We'll look at common ways anxiety and depression take over your brain and how to replace those patterns with something more healthy. Transcript 
46m 8s
May 2021
The Importance Of Hitting Pause To Recognise Your Thoughts
Life can be so hectic that we never pay attention to what we are actually thinking. Negative self talk and limiting beliefs are just a few things that maybe holding you back currently. In this episode, I talk through a recent experience of finding time to be in silence and how it ... Show More
12m 17s
Mar 2025
427 Listen to This if You are Completely Overwhelmed
If you're feeling mentally, emotionally, or physically overwhelmed, this episode offers compassionate, science-based strategies to help you reset your nervous system and gently take back control. 
17m 50s
Oct 2015
How to get clear when stress messes with your emotions
Stress brings an internal chaos that can cause us to loose sight of ourselves. In this week's podcast we're talking about how to regain a sense of calm and clarity when stress messes with your emotions 
15m 11s
May 2018
Ep 148. Confusion
<p>Today I'm teaching you about confusion, overwhelm and indecision. These are what I call indulgent emotions. Feeling them does not get you closer to clarity and focus. Instead it keeps you unconscious and stuck. They are a result of a mismanaged brain and while it may feel like ... Show More
29m 2s
Nov 2024
How to Let Go of What You Can’t Control & Redirect Your Energy
<p>If you feel a sense of overwhelm, dread, or uncertainty right now, you need to hear this episode.</p><p>Right now, so many things are out of your control – whether it’s global events, elections, a health diagnosis, or news you’re waiting on.</p><p>In today’s deeply personal ep ... Show More
1h 12m
Dec 2017
Deep Confusion As A Victory Tool
Society teaches us that confusion needs to be avoided. I suggest to you, that without confusion, there is no growth. In this new Mastery Session, I walk you through how to turn pain into power and setbacks into strength and the importance of waking into the places that scare you. ... Show More
9m 45s