Work Stress Anxiety | Burnout Prevention & Work Anxiety Help

Author: Cheryl Paris | Work Stress & Burnout Specialist

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Work Stress Anxiety is a dedicated podcast for high-achieving women seeking expert guidance on work stress, burnout prevention, and managing work anxiety. Hosted by Cheryl Paris, a clinical hypnotherapist and stress recovery coach, the show blends real stories, nervous system regulation techniques, and hypnotherapy for stress relief. Listeners learn to handle workplace stress, job insecurity stress, and toxic workplace dynamics while building emotional resilience and preventing burnout. Practical strategies for work-related stress recovery and improving work-life balance are covered in every episode, making it an essential resource for women facing workplace pressure.

The weekday podcast is for high-achieving women

If you're struggling with workplace anxiety, feeling emotionally drained, lying awake at 2:03 a.m. staring at the clock, replaying conversations, or wondering why your success feels so expensive now, you're in the right place.

Hosted by Cheryl Paris, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Stress Recovery Coach, this podcast helps high-achieving women understand work-related stress, prevent burnout, build emotional resilience, and recover from chronic workplace pressure.

Work Stress Anxiety uses metaphors, nervous system education, and real-world workplace examples to help high-achieving women make sense of stress, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion at work.

Through honest conversations with ordinary people you’d walk past in the street every day, Cheryl explores real stories, real struggles, and practical ways forward, without the motivational nonsense.

You'll get to learn practical strategies for:

• Work stress and workplace stress

• Work anxiety and anxiety at work

• Burnout prevention and burnout recovery

• Emotional exhaustion and nervous system overload

• Emotional resilience during difficult periods

• Stress recovery after prolonged pressure

• High-functioning anxiety

• Workplace conflict and investigations

• Toxic workplace cultures

• Setting boundaries without guilt

• Sleeping better when your mind won't switch off

• Coping with uncertainty, change, and job insecurity

Helping you understand what's really happening in your workplace mind, what's happening in your nervous system, and what you can do next.

ABGW stands for Awareness, Balance, Growth, and Win-Win Wellbeing.

Not pretending that a breathing exercise fixes your dysfunctional workplace.

None of that resilience theatre or so-called positivity.

Just practical support for high-achieving women who want to stop paying for their success with their health.

Shared stories are anonymised.

This podcast is for educational and reflective purposes only and does not constitute medical, psychological, legal, workplace, or professional advice.

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Work Stress: You Look Fine. So Why Does Resentment Feel So Heavy?

2026-09-1817:46

Resentment can feel ugly, but sometimes it’s your clearest signal that responsibility has started to blur. We share a personal moment that many high-functioning women will recognise: juggling work, study, and life, then getting a seemingly simple request from family that lands like one more demand on an already empty battery. Saying no is the easy part. The hard part is sitting with guilt, disappointment, and the old habit of trying to manage someone else’s reaction. From there, we connect t...

Work Stress and Work Anxiety: The Pattern Hiding in The thoughts that follow you to bed

2026-09-1717:16

Why does one small work message pull me straight back into pressure? Wellness advice is everywhere, but when you’re already tired and stretched thin, it can feel like the internet is yelling a thousand different fixes at you at once. Cheryl Paris sits down with Tierra to slow things down and answer the real question: where do you start when you’re overwhelmed, juggling work and family, and noticing your body changing in ways you didn’t expect? We talk about why a trusted healthcare provider i...

Work Stress: What The boundary you keep renegotiating Is Really Telling You

2026-09-1618:07

Work is over, so why does it still feel like I'm in it? “I’m just stressed” can be true and still miss the point. When stress becomes the background noise of your life, it can start masking what your body is actually trying to tell you, especially if you’re a high-functioning woman juggling work, home, relationships, and the pressure to keep it together. We slow down and ask a sharper question: when does stress stop being a useful explanation and become a signal to look underneath the surface...

Work Stress and Work Anxiety: The Pattern Hiding in

2026-09-1518:00

I am tired of needing fresh proof that I am not a fraud. When high-achieving women keep renegotiating their work boundaries, it's not weakness—it's your nervous system anxiety trying to protect you. In this episode, Cheryl reveals why capable women dismiss body anxiety signals as failure and uncovers the hidden pattern behind boundary collapse. Discover how to listen to your fatigue as intelligent feedback rather than pushing through, and build sustainable work-stress recovery without sacrifi...

Work Stress & Work Anxiety: Wired but Tired

2026-09-1418:54

I’m exhausted. So why can’t my body just bloody switch off? You shut your laptop, but your nervous system stays wired. Tight jaw, shallow breathing, jumpiness at notifications—this is work stress that doesn't clock out. In this episode, I walk through Joan's story and reveal why your body keeps acting like the next demand is already here. Learn the nervous system anxiety pattern hiding behind "just relax" advice, and discover stress recovery techniques that actually reset yo...

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Work Stress Anxiety | Burnout Prevention & Work Anxiety Help