Ep. 294 Manage Emotional Overwhelm Now with an Emotional Budget

Do you ever feel emotionally drained—like you’re carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders? If you’re someone with a high level of empathy, this episode is especially for you.

Today, I’ll share how to create an emotional budget—a powerful and practical way to manage your empathy, protect your mental health, and set healthy boundaries. Just like financial budgeting helps us thrive, emotional budgeting helps us stay grounded and joyful, even when others around us are struggling.

Join me as we explore how to balance compassion with self-care—and how a Catholic therapist or life coach can guide you in that journey. You don’t have to be overwhelmed. Let’s walk this out together.

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Allison Ricciardi is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York, in practice since 1990. In 2001 Allison founded CatholicTherapists.com, the web’s #1 resource connecting Catholics with faithful Catholic therapists. She is also the director of The Raphael Remedy which offers counseling, coaching and wellness support from an authentically Catholic perspective.

In addition to blogging on her two sites, Allison is a regularly featured contributor on Mind & Spirit. Allison’s unique ability to integrate faith, psychology and common sense has made her a popular guest on radio and television alike.

Grounded in the belief that God made the human person and that the emotions and the spirit are inexorably connected with the physical, Allison also offers wellness support and education as a Certified Essential Oils Wellness Coach. Utilizing God’s natural remedies in nature along with the wisdom revealed through the Scriptures and Church teachings, Allison is better able to address the whole person, body, mind and spirit for true and lasting healing.