How Understanding Your Body’s Stress Responses Builds Sustainable Wellbeing

Send us Fan MailSHOW NOTES: WorkLife Stories from School of WorkLife Episode: How Understanding Your Body's Stress Responses Builds Sustainable WellbeingLearning how understanding your body's stress responses builds sustainable wellbeing begins with recognising that the physical symptoms you've been pushing through aren't signs of professional dedication — they're your nervous system telling you something important you've been too busy to hear.Don had built his reputation as finance manager on delivering under pressure. But what looked like professional resilience to everyone else was quietly dismantling his cognitive performance, his sleep, and his relationship with the people closest to him. This is the story of the moment a simple question in a boardroom revealed that his body hadn't been failing to cope — it had been sending signals he had never learned to read.RESOURCES MENTIONEDThe Storytelling Newsletter (Free) Short, focused, and grounded in real WorkLife situations — how we communicate, lead, make decisions, and navigate challenges at work.  How Understanding Your Body's Stress Responses Builds Sustainable Wellbeing — Learn how working with your nervous system rather than against it protects the cognitive performance and personal wellbeing that genuine professional resilience actually requires.Guided Programme Take Care of Your Wellbeing Both In and Out of the Workplace — Finding Balance When Personal Crisis Meets Professional Responsibility Support This Work: Your support makes a difference and helps me to continue creating resources that are accessible to everyone. Thank you. CarmelCommissioned learning resources, speaking engagements, and organisational partnerships: [email protected] stories I write are based on real WorkLife challenges, obstacles, failures and successes. Persons and companies portrayed in the stories are not based on real people or entities. Carmel O’ ReillySupport the show