Understanding Stress and Resilience · Burnout Burnout is a reaction to prolonged or chronic job...
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Understanding Stress and Resilience
Evelyn Kaluza
Executive Wellbeing Coach
Inchcape UK
April 2020
Workshop Overview
• The biology of stress and is all stress bad?
• Are you thriving or surviving?
• How to build your resilience
• What action can you take today?
Stress - The Facts
• 74% of UK adults have felt so stressed at some point over the last year they felt overwhelmed or unable to cope.
• In 2017/18 stress, depression or anxiety accounted for 44% of all work-related ill health cases and 57% of all working days lost due to ill health.
Source: Mental Health Foundation
57% people who experienced concerns about their mental health turned
to unhealthy behaviours – smoking, drinking alcohol, unhealthy eating or
taking recreational drugs
8 in ten (83%) people have experienced early signs of
poor mental health including feeling anxious, stressed, having
low mood or trouble sleeping in the last 12 months
Mental Health Survey
Source: Public Health England
Just over half (53%) of people who experienced concerns about their
mental health avoided social situations or contact from friends and family.
EUSTRESS or DISTRESS
Is all stress bad?
New job
Getting Married
Having a baby
Peforming on Stage
See things as challenges rather than threats
changes our mindset and our physiological
response
Burnout
Burnout is a reaction to prolonged or chronic job stress and is characterized by three main dimensions:
• exhaustion,
• cynicism (less identification with the job),
• and feelings of reduced professional ability
Sources of stress or worry
Money
Workload
Mental
Health
Work
Relationships
Physical
Health
Personal
Relationships
Boss
Family
Daily
Hassles
Job
Security
Corona
Virus
Internal sources of stress
Negative
Self TalkProcrastinating Weak
Boundaries
People
Pleasing
Can’t say
No
Do It
Yourself
Mode
Unmotivated
Boredom
Rescuer
Fear of
Failure
Over
thinking
Challenged
Inspired
Energetic
Engaged
Alive Tired
Tense
Pushing hard
Rushed
DisorganisedDepressed
Guilt
Negative/angry
Helpless
Low focus/control
Thriving
Surviving
Burnout
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Wellbeing and Resilience States
How are you feeling?
Biology – the Brain
FIGHT AND FLIGHT
REST & DIGEST
Human Brain –
thinking,
Reptilian Brain
Limbic –
Emotions,
Memory
The Warning Signs
MindWorrying
Muddled Thinking
Impaired judgement
Negativity
Hasty decisions
BodyHeadaches
Fatigue
Infections
Muscular
Skin
Emotions
More fussy
Irritability
Depression
Alienation
Apathy
Behaviour
Accident prone
Loss of appetite
Drinking more
Insomnia
Restlessness
STRESS
PHYSICAL EMOTIONAL
MENTAL
HOW ARE YOUR
ENERGY
RESERVES?
Building Your Resilience
EXERCISE
RESTAPPRECIATE
CONNECT
SLEEP
EAT WELL LEARN
FUN
SELF CARE
Deposits
Deposits
Deposits
Withdrawls
Withdrawls
Withdrawls
Wellbeing Bingo
“A mind that is racing over worries about the
future or recycling resentments from the past is
ill equipped to handle the challenges of the
moment.
By slowing down, we can train the mind to focus
completely in the present. Then we will find that
we can function well whatever the difficulties.
That is what it means to be stress-proof: not
avoiding stress but being at our best under
pressure, calm, cool, and creative in the midst of
the storm.”
― Eknath Easwaran, Take Your Time: The
Wisdom of Slowing Down
Slowing Down
Achieving better balance
✓ Remind yourself what really
matters
✓ Remind yourself you have been
through a difficult time before
✓ Take small steps every day
✓ Focus on the good things
✓ Know when your energy
reserves are getting low
✓ Try slowing down
✓ Ask for help
So what are you
going to do
today?