Coaching practices for How to Handle Extreme Stress at Work
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- I’ve gotten so good at "embracing the stress" that I keep telling myself I’m fine while quietly running on empty
- I’m so flooded right now I can’t think
- I’m so wound up I can’t sit still
- Deep in a work session my jaw clenches and my shoulders creep up and I read it as a signal to bear down harder
- Right before the thing that matters
Practices that may help
- 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 - TIPP: Rapid Physiological De-escalation for Intense Distress
Use Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and Paired muscle relaxation to bring crisis-level emotion down quickly.
The STOP Skill: A DBT Technique for Crisis Moments - Intense exercise: discharge the physiological arousal with brief intense movement
Do 20 jumping jacks, sprint for a minute, or any intense exercise to burn through the stress-response chemicals.
TIPP: DBT’s Crisis Skill for Rapidly Lowering Emotional Intensity - 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 - Practice the "see it, own it, use it" reappraisal
Crum’s framework: notice the stress (see it), acknowledge why it matters (own it), and channel it (use it).
The Stress-Is-Enhancing Mindset - 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 - Inventory your coping resources (secondary appraisal)
After identifying the threat, systematically assess what you actually have to work with — your options are likely more than the stressed mind sees.
Lazarus Appraisal Theory, Made Practical - TIPP — change your body chemistry fast
Use Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and Progressive muscle relaxation to drop overwhelm from the body up.
Distress Tolerance Skills, Made Practical - Map your stress response (conceptualization phase)
Before you train coping, understand the full sequence: trigger → appraisal → body → behavior → consequence.
Stress Inoculation Training - Graduated anger inoculation (stress inoculation exposure)
Practice coping with anger in imagination — from mild triggers to intense ones — before you face them live.
Novaco Anger Management, Made Practical
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