Coaching practices for How to Get Over Work Stress
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- Between the job stress and the family crisis, my partner and I have basically become two exhausted people running logistics
- Deep in a work session my jaw clenches and my shoulders creep up and I read it as a signal to bear down harder
- I’ve gotten so good at "embracing the stress" that I keep telling myself I’m fine while quietly running on empty
- There’s all this churned-up feeling stuck in my chest after a hard stretch and I just stuff it down or scroll past it, when what it’s actually begging for is to come out somewhere
- After a brutal day my body is still buzzing with all this fight-or-flight charge and nowhere for it to go, so I just sit there wired and restless
Practices that may help
- Make extra deposits during difficult life periods
External stress drains PSO — consciously increase positive interactions when life is hard.
Positive Sentiment Override: How to Build the Lens That Protects Relationships - The Stress Response Cycle: How to Discharge Stress, Not Just Remove the Stressor
Emily and Amelia Nagoski’s key insight is that dealing with a stressor (your difficult boss, your deadline) and completing the physiological stress response (the adrenaline, cortisol, and tension your body generated) are two separate tasks. The body’s threat response was designed to be discharged through physical activity, rest, or social connection — not just through the stressor going away. The "completion" framing is their conceptual model; the underlying physiology of stress discharge is well supported in stress-response science. - Use stress signals as cycle-boundary alerts
When physical stress signals arrive in a focus session, treat them as the body marking a cycle boundary — not a cue to push harder.
Ultradian Rhythms: Working with Your Brain’s Focus Cycles - Pair the enhancing mindset with genuine stress management
Believing stress can be useful does not mean tolerating excess — recognize when reduction is the right move.
The Stress-Is-Enhancing Mindset - Creative expression to complete an emotional arc
Channel stress into creative output — writing, making, moving — as a completion practice.
The Stress Response Cycle: How to Discharge Stress, Not Just Remove the Stressor - Physical movement to discharge the stress response
The single most effective way to complete the stress cycle is vigorous physical activity.
The Stress Response Cycle: How to Discharge Stress, Not Just Remove the Stressor - Use a 15-minute end-of-day planning buffer to close the day’s loops
Before leaving work, take 15 minutes to list tomorrow’s priorities and explicitly close today’s open loops.
The Zeigarnik Effect: How Unfinished Tasks Occupy Your Mind - Use a shutdown ritual
End the workday with a deliberate routine that closes open loops and declares work done.
Deep Work, Made Practical - Use a shutdown ritual to end the workday cleanly
A brief end-of-day ritual signals closure to the brain and enables genuine evening rest.
Deliberate Rest - Sleep as the nightly cycle-completion reset
Sleep is the body’s built-in mechanism for clearing the day’s accumulated stress chemistry.
The Stress Response Cycle: How to Discharge Stress, Not Just Remove the Stressor
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Emily and Amelia Nagoski’s key insight is that dealing with a stressor (your difficult boss, your deadline) and completing the physiological stress response (the adrenaline, cortisol, and tension your body generated) are two separate tasks. The body’s threat response was designed to be discharged through physical activity, rest, or social connection — not just through the stressor going away. The "completion" framing is their conceptual model; the underlying physiology of stress discharge is well supported in stress-response science.
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