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Navigating Workplace Pressures: Strategies for Stress and Anxiety Management

by John Nolan
28th March 2025

Effectively managing stress and anxiety in the workplace involves a range of strategies. Conscious breathing techniques can ground you and ease the stress response. Setting healthy boundaries protects your time and energy. Shifting your focus redirects attention away from anxious thoughts. Identifying and addressing stress sources allows for targeted action. Cultivating self-awareness and emotional maturity enables proactive coping. Utilising support systems provides emotional relief. Reframing anxiety in high-pressure roles can change your perspective. Taking even small actions to minimise stress can build resilience. By implementing these approaches, individuals can expect to experience reduced overwhelm, improved focus, better emotional regulation, increased confidence, and enhanced well-being at work.

Managing Your Nerves

by John Nolan
17th March 202523rd March 2025

Learning how to control nervousness involves a range of techniques, including focusing on slow, deep breathing to calm the body, shifting attention away from worried thoughts to the present moment, developing self-soothing activities, thorough preparation for potentially nerve-wracking situations, accepting feelings of nervousness without judgment, and seeking support from trusted individuals. Consistent practice of these strategies can empower you to manage nervousness more effectively in various situations.

Supporting Wellbeing: Coaching for Stress Management at Work1st April 2025
Coaching for stress management at work is a collaborative process focused on helping individuals within a professional context to better understand and handle workplace pressures. It involves techniques like solution-focused questioning, exploring past successes, developing coping skills, and setting boundaries to enhance wellbeing and performance.
Coaching Beyond the Shadows: Embracing a Future-Oriented Path from Depression1st April 2025
Depression coaching centres on empowering individuals to move beyond current difficulties by focusing on their strengths and future aspirations. Key principles include fostering hope, leveraging strengths, setting achievable goals aligned with values, and cultivating acceptance. A future-oriented approach proves particularly effective by shifting focus from problems to possibilities, generating hope and motivation, creating clear goals, breaking rumination cycles, empowering agency, and building resilience. By illuminating a path forward, depression coaching supports individuals in actively creating the fulfilling lives they desire.
Sensory Pathways to Healing: The Rise and Integration of Psychosensory Therapy31st March 2025
Psychosensory therapy, with origins in traditional practices and modern neuroscience, is increasingly effective in mental health by directly influencing neurobiological states through sensory input. Techniques like Havening, EFT, and EMDR target the amygdala and can facilitate the processing of trauma and reduce anxiety. These therapies offer rapid, gentle, and empowering approaches for issues such as panic attacks, phobias, PTSD, chronic pain, and addictions. Psychosensory therapy integrates well with future-oriented modalities like SFBT, coaching, and NLP by quickly reducing distress, fostering self-empowerment, and creating a more receptive state for change and goal achievement.
Embracing Experience: Understanding and Moving Beyond Avoidance30th March 2025
Experiential avoidance, the attempt to evade unwanted inner experiences, plays a significant role in various mental health challenges, including anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma, leading to restricted lives and intensified distress. Overcoming this pattern involves cultivating awareness, acceptance, willingness, cognitive defusion, present moment contact, value clarification, gradual exposure, and self-compassion, enabling individuals to engage with a full range of experiences and move towards a more fulfilling life.
Steps to Overcoming Dread: Calming Your Mind and Building Resilience with Self-Help Techniques29th March 2025
Feelings of dread often involve activation of the brain's threat system (amygdala) and an overwhelmed cortex, accompanied by negative thinking patterns, anticipation of threat, and negative self-talk. To overcome dread, techniques such as CPR for the Amygdala (combining self-havening and brain games), self-havening alone, challenging negative self-talk, practising mindfulness and acceptance, focusing on solutions, ACT-based defusion, applied relaxation (breathing), cultivating self-compassion, and the LLAMP approach can be effective. These methods work by calming the nervous system, redirecting attention, creating psychological distance from negative thoughts, promoting self-acceptance, and shifting focus towards positive possibilities and values. Consistent practice and patience are key to building resilience and reducing the impact of dread.