Work Stress Anxiety: Stress Recovery Strategies by ABGW
Managing Work Stress, Work Anxiety and Burnout in Women
Work Stress Anxiety: Stress Recovery Strategies by ABGW offers compassionate, practical solutions for women navigating work stress, burnout recovery, and work stress management. Hosted by Cheryl Paris, a clinical hypnotherapist and expert in stress recovery, this trauma-aware podcast tackles work-related anxiety, high-functioning stress, and nervous system awareness. Ideal for women leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs, it delivers mental health self-care tips, compassionate leadership advice, and real insights on managing workplace burnout women face. No fluff—just genuine support for sustainable stress relief.
ABGW stands for Amazing, Brilliant, Gorgeous, Wonderful.
Each episode explores the hidden cost of keeping it together: overthinking, sleep disruption, emotional load, workplace pressure, boundaries, burnout risk, and the private exhaustion behind “I’m fine.”
No fluff. No fake wellness theatre. No pretending a scented candle can fix a workplace culture with structural indigestion.
Shared stories are anonymised. This podcast is for reflection and education only, not medical, psychological, legal, or workplace advice.
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Work Stress Anxiety: Stress Recovery Strategies by ABGW
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Ever walk into a meeting and feel the temperature drop even though no one says a word? We dig into the hidden labor of managing other people’s moods at work and offer a calmer path: stop chasing the weather and start owning your role. I share why smart, capable leaders overfunction when tension rises, how a single sigh can create an unofficial hierarchy, and what to do when your nervous system wants to appease, explain, or disappear.
We get practical fast. You’ll learn a quick somatic reset—feel your feet, drop your shoulders, unclench your jaw—and a phrase to anchor your focus: “The mood is information, not instruction.” From there, we pivot to clean boundary language that keeps meetings productive without absorbing the emotional spillover. Try prompts like, “I want to keep this constructive. What decisions are we making, and what do you need from me?” You’ll see how this simple shift turns vague tension into actionable clarity and protects your energy for the real work.
Throughout, we return to one steady idea: calm is not something you earn after a perfect week; it’s a practice you build in five quiet minutes. I invite you to notice what lands for you—no big declarations, just useful data you can use tomorrow. If you want more support, grab the emotional first aid kit at herguru.co.uk for scripts, micro‑exercises, and checklists that travel with you between back‑to‑backs.
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Hey, I'm Cheryl and welcome to ABGW, which means amazing, brilliant, gorgeous, wonderful. Um, I'm starting a little mini series here again. This is a small, steady space for people who carry a lot, who think deeply like me, and
Welcome And Mini Series Setup
SPEAKER_00don't always give themselves five minutes quiet time. So over the next few short episodes, we'll be slowing things down, just enough to help your nervous system remember that calm isn't something you earn, it's something you practice. So wherever you are, find your breath, find a little space, and let's
Practicing Calm On Purpose
SPEAKER_00begin. Remember you are amazing, brilliant, gorgeous, wonderful. Not because your weak is, but because you are. Even when you're running on caffeine, duty, and spite, today's problem, you're tiptoeing around someone, someone's mood at work, like it's a I don't know, live wire.
Naming The Work Mood Problem
SPEAKER_00And what I want you to think about is if I set a boundary, I'll look difficult, disloyal, not a team leader, and that's not true. Here's the bleakly relatable part. When you're a senior, you don't just manage work, you actually manage the atmosphere. You walk into a meeting and you can sense it, the tight jewel, the clipped
The Hidden Cost Of Overfunctioning
SPEAKER_00tone, the cold silence that says someone's having a day and you're all to pay for it. Okay. And because you're intelligent and you're capable and you do what most competent women do, you adapt, right? You soften, you anticipate, you sometimes overfunction, and then later you repay the whole thing. What did I do wrong? The thing is, your job today is not to fix the mood, it's to notice what's going on for you on the inside.
Mood As Unofficial Hierarchy
SPEAKER_00I remember once watching a woman in a leadership meeting shrink in real time. One sigh from a senior person, and suddenly she was explaining to herself like she'd been caught stealing the stationery. That was the moment it hit me. Mood can become an unofficial hierarchy. It's like when you walk into a room where the atmosphere is broken, everyone's freezing, and instead of fixing the thermometer, you're apologizing for not being warm enough. So here's the reframe. Like I said, a boundary isn't loyalty, disloyalty, disloyalty, it's role clarification. So right now, if you can, I want you to feel your feet. I want you to drop your shoulders a millimeter or two.
Reframe And Somatic Reset
SPEAKER_00I want you to unclench your jaw and say silently, the mood is information, it's not instruction. One thing you can think of today is I want to keep this constructive. What decisions we are making and what we need from me, what are the decisions that you need from me? In the next episode, we'll tackle the bit nobody says out loud, but it's complicated,
Keep It Constructive At Work
SPEAKER_00you don't understand the dynamics. If something in today's episode landed for you, even quietly, that matters. And you don't want to make a big deal out of
What Lands For You
SPEAKER_00it. I just want you to notice what it was because that's information. And if you'd like a bit of extra support, you can download my new emotional first aid to kit at herguru.co.uk if you want resources like this. It's here for moments like this where you need to take a pause.
Extra Support And Closing
SPEAKER_00Why not take this pause with you? Because remember, every step you take, no matter how small, is a step towards a brighter, more balanced future. Trust in your journey. And remember, progress is progress no matter the pace. Bye for now.
