The back-to-school season can paint a picture of chaos and stress for many families. One mother has uncovered the key to feeling a little less overwhelmed for this back-to-school season. 

One woman and her family will be handling the back-to-school pandemonium a little differently this fall.

Kay Wyma, who calls herself an accidental author and a "mom who got mad," has published three books dealing with hard subjects facing individuals and families in today's world.

"You put yourself out there," shared the mother-of-five from Dallas, Texas. "It's such a challenge... it's such a privilege to get to [write a book], but it is an interesting adventure."

Her first book dealt with the concept of youth entitlement and is how the author says she first realized her frustration with societal trends. The mother-of-five has since continued to tackle hard topics such as contentment, and most recently, the stage of being overwhelmed.

Wyma says that the feeling of being overwhelmed may not give you much, but it can take a lot out of and away from you. With overwhelmed becoming "a new normal," she says she felt moved to write about the topic.

"I think everyone feels it, and we all live it," Wyma shared.

It's a subject Wyma's own family has been working through, together, for several years now.

"You can get in the car and turn on the radio and it's overwhelming," shared Wyma. "Everything hits you all at once."

"Why don't we be overwhelmed instead by truth?"

Living in a constant high mode as Wyma describes is emotionally, mentally, and physically taxing. That's why she and her family decided to call out the issue and face the problem from a different perspective.

Not the Boss of Us: Putting Overwhelmed in Its Place in a Do-All, Be-All World focuses on how to reframe and repurpose the feeling of being overwhelmed, according to Wyma. It's about replacing the overwhelmingness of life with overwhelming truth.

Anything can overwhelm us, says Wyma, from family, to school, to work. "In our world, we deal with things like performance pressures that will lead a person to think that their worth or identity is tied up in something like a grade or a score.

"That's not true," states Wyma. It's at this point that she'll turn back to truth. "The [truth is] that you have great worth and that you are beautiful."

The problem is not with goals or aspirations, but with becoming overwhelmed by worldly standards that don't have any true, lasting meaning. Wyma's solution to dealing with overwhelmingness is elegant and simple.

"It steals our peace and it steals our joy, and those things are anchored in truth, so why not go there and be anchored in truth instead."

This shift in thinking, to choose to focus on the truth behind the things overwhelming us, is something Wyma and her family have been working to do for the past few years. The differences in her own children, she says, have both shocked and excited her.

Last year, the author watched as one of her sons became more and more frustrated one evening while doing his homework until one of his sisters walked beside him.

"She asked him, 'why are you so frustrated?.. listen, grades do not define you. It's just a grade.'"

"Put the oxygen mask on yourself first."

Acknowledging the problem is what the mother-turned-author says should be the first step in addressing your own feelings of being overwhelmed.

"I think the first thing to do is to call it out," Wyma advised. "Say it out loud, 'I'm feeling overwhelmed by this,' and have someone there, someone safe that you can talk to. Travelling life together is important. Then replace it with truth.

"This isn't the boss of you, but truth is."

With back-to-school just around the corner, Wyma says the best way for families to combat the overwhelmingness of the season and its stressors is to tackle their own issues first.

"Put the oxygen mask on yourself first. Believe it for you first... you have to believe that the grade doesn't define your kid... you're in it but you're not of it."

This is despite the fact that every other earthly outlet tells you to believe otherwise. "Every messaging for a parent is that... a parent's worth is based on how their kid is doing."

For that, Wyma encourages everyone to go back to the truth, referencing Isaiah 43 and the basis of what every truth is rooted in.

"It's that [practice of refocusing] that makes everything solid."