The overwhelm most people feel about prepping didn't start with prepping. It started with everything else: the news cycle, the bills, the job, the family, and a note to yourself about getting prepared that's been sitting there for two months. In this Day 3 episode of National Preparedness Month, I cover why prepping itself piles on, what a Mind4Survival reader survey said about how the state of the world makes people feel, and what "enough" looks like once fear stops running the shopping list. I walk through risk management from the Mind4Survival book as the fix, where to start if you're new, what to do once your first week of supplies is set, and how to reset when overwhelm hits in the middle of an actual problem. Preparedness is supposed to bring relief, and this is how you get there despite everything else on the pile.
