Coaching practices for Technostress What it is and How to Manage it After a Loss

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• Between the job stress and the family crisis, my partner and I have basically become two exhausted people running logistics
• I get through a hard thing and then just move on without ever clocking that I handled it, so it never seems to make the next one any easier
• The hard meeting ended an hour ago but my body is still buzzing from it, like the adrenaline never got the memo that it’s over
• I feel like I have to reply the second anything comes in or people will think badly of me
• It’s not just the missing them

Practices that may help

1. Technostress: What It Is and How to Manage It
   Technostress, a term systematised by Larry Rosen, describes the cognitive, emotional, and physiological strain produced by technology overload, complexity, insecurity, and the blurring of work-life boundaries by always-on devices. It is a real and measurable phenomenon with physiological correlates; the most evidence-supported interventions involve boundary-setting, recovery breaks, and reducing the perceived demand to be continuously available.
2. 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
3. Debrief after each stressful encounter
   Within 24 hours of a challenging event, review what you did, what worked, and what you will adjust.
   Stress Inoculation Training
4. Deliberate orienting after a stressful event to complete the cycle
   After a difficult experience, do a slow orienting exercise to help your nervous system register that it is now over.
   The Orienting Response, Made Practical
5. Reset your perceived availability norm with your team
   Explicitly renegotiate the expectation of instant response — most urgency is not real urgency.
   Technostress: What It Is and How to Manage It
6. Identify and address secondary stressors
   Name the practical, identity, and relational challenges the loss has created — and work on them as restoration.
   The Dual Process Model of Grief, Made Practical
7. Reach out when stressed, not after
   Contact a trusted person during stress, not only once it has passed — the oxytocin release is the active coping mechanism.
   Tend-and-Befriend, Made Practical
8. 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.
9. Real social connection as a stress discharge
   Genuine human connection — a hug, a real conversation — can complete the stress cycle faster than most techniques.
   The Stress Response Cycle: How to Discharge Stress, Not Just Remove the Stressor
10. Apply emotion-focused coping to uncontrollable stressors
    When the stressor cannot be changed, invest your energy in how you relate to the experience rather than fighting the situation.
    Lazarus Appraisal Theory, Made Practical

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