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

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• 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 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
• Between the job stress and the family crisis, my partner and I have basically become two exhausted people running logistics
• I sit in front of screens for hours without ever truly stepping away, and by mid-afternoon I’m wired and fried at the same time
• One thing goes wrong and my mind instantly makes it mean everything is ruined and always will be

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. 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
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. 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
5. Schedule regular technology recovery breaks throughout the workday
   Take a 10-15 minute technology-free break every 90 minutes to allow cognitive and physiological recovery.
   Technostress: What It Is and How to Manage It
6. Reframe through cognitive reappraisal
   Change how you interpret a stressor — its meaning, scope, and permanence — to change its emotional impact.
   Building Resilience, Made Practical
7. Schedule deliberate recovery intervals throughout the day
   Treat recovery periods not as laziness but as physiological necessity — the nervous system rebuilds resilience during recovery, not during effort.
   The Resilience Bank Account, Made Practical
8. 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
9. Take a weekly digital sabbath — one day without non-essential technology
   Designate one day per week as a near-technology-free recovery day for the nervous system.
   Technostress: What It Is and How to Manage It
10. Build resources proactively during good periods as inoculation
    Resilience is built before stress arrives, not during it — the preparation window is the good periods.
    Conservation of Resources Theory, Made Practical

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