Stress In The Workplace Testimonial

What Is Misunderstood About Stress In The Workplace

For most people, stress in the workplace can become a deal breaker. Who hasn’t experienced stress at work? And, who hasn’t heard one of your co-workers say:

“I don’t get paid enough to deal with this.”


Personal stress

One of the challenges in coping with stress at work is that no one lives in a bubble. Everyone brings the stress of their personal lives with them to work:
  • Relationship stress
  • Children
  • Finances
  • Health issues
  • Daily living responsibilities

No one is a robot and can just flip a switch to completely forget about the stress in their life. I believe that each person does the best they can do to balance their personal stressors with the additional ones encountered at work.

Stress at work

It doesn’t matter who you are, or how highly skilled you are in your profession, stress in the workplace exists. Coping with relationship stress at work can become a bigger challenge than the day-to-day tasks required to actually to do the job.

In the world in which we live, there are these are some of the actual work stressors that many have to worry about:
  • Being laid off
  • Being fired
  • Being reassigned
  • Making less money
  • Trouble getting along with the boss
  • Having to work too many hours
Stress at work is undeniably real. And yet, consistently the past clients have talked about how managing acutal work stress seemed easier to cope with to them than it did to deal with how they were being treated by their boss, co-workers or clients.

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Relationship stress

When you are not stressed, there is a BEST in you that creates the possibility for managing stress in the workplace that otherwise might not be there.

Think about this statement:

We all want what we want, when we want it, and how we want it.

When the relationships at work fall below this naturally desired expectation, we get stressed. When stressed, behaviors that were being experienced as respectful begin to shift pretty quickly to ones that feel disrespectful.

These changes in behaviors are NOT about someone not being a good person. Rather, behaviors change as a result of being stressed.

Now, think about how you are treated by your boss, co-workers, or clients. Are you starting to understand why stress in the workplace can be so overwhelming?

While you are at work, how often have you experienced seeing:
  • Someone rolling their eyes about another
  • Someone loudly hanging up the phone
  • Someone giving a shaming look
  • Someone using silent treatment towards others
  • Someone pretending not to hear what’s being said
  • Someone rudely walking away from a conversation
  • Someone sending negative emotionally charged emails
  • Someone using hand gestures that indicate “stop” or “shut up”

Without judgment, can you remember when you have been stressed at work and reacted in one of those ways?

We all have…that is what unmanaged stress can do to us and to others.

Stress management in the workplace

Learning how to manage the stress in the workplace that is created from disrespectful behaviors is one of the most difficult things any of us can learn how to do.

And, because of coping with stress at work, it is one of the most important skills you can learn for your own health and wellbeing. You can learn how to put yourself back into control while in situations that feel impossible to change.






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One of the most difficult stressors to deal with is the stress at work.

If you have a question about the stress you are experiencing at work, or have a stress tip for work, please share them here.

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What Other Visitors Have Said

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Feeling disrespected at work  starstarstarstarstar
I can barely stand it. I am feeling so disrespected at work. I'm not sure if I should quit, but don't want to because I need the job.


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Can I control how people treat you?  Not rated yet
Can I control how people treat you? I think about it all the time at work because of how people treat me, and I'm sick of it. If there's a way to do ...

I treat people badly  Not rated yet
I treat the people I work with really badly. I know they don't deserve it, at least most of the time, but I can't seem to control it. We have been downsized ...

Supervisor disrespected by employee  Not rated yet
I am a supervisor in the cardiac department at a local hospital. Almost on a daily basis I feel disrespected by my employees. Do you have any suggestions ...

Can i get sick from over work?  Not rated yet
My boss is killing us. We are short staffed, but we are being asked to work more to make up for that. On top of working more hours, we are also being ...

Ways to reduce my stress while looking for work?  Not rated yet
I've been unemployed for awhile now, and the stress of that is starting to get the best of me. Can you tell me some ways to reduce my stress while looking ...

How to ignore work stress?  Not rated yet
All I really want is for someone to tell me how to ignore work stress. Can you do that?

Thank you for the question. The problem with stress in the ...

How can i control stress caused by my work?  Not rated yet
No place is harder for me to deal with than when I'm at work. How can I control stress caused by my work?

John, thank you for the question. I will ...

Feeling disrespected by employees  Not rated yet
I am a supervisor of 25+ employees. There has been a lot of stress because of budget constraints and lay offs. I'm feeling disrespected by employees ...

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I don't feel like I'm stressed, but I also don't feel like I'm acting like myself. Am I stressed, or is something else going on?


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“Ms. Churchill is the unique health care worker everyone hopes to encounter, but rarely does. She has an extraordinary gift that allows her to do much more than diagnose and treat.”
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K., age 45, is a long term chronically PTSD disabled patient. She has had daily headaches for 20 years. Two weeks ago she reported that she had had 4 days of pain free time, and was having the exceedingly odd sensation of "smiling all the time". She and Cathi have made extraordinary fast progress together.
Dr. Cole




I referred C.L., age mid-forties, to see Cathi after a life of suffering the post traumatic stress disorder of parental sexual abuse over many years of her childhood, with major dysfunctions of alcohol and drug abuse, and with the disabling symptoms of migraine that have for more than twenty years become chronic.

She has lived with daily headaches that have not responded to any of the several drugs which have benefited many such suffering patients. She has needed chronic opiate treatment of her chronic pain syndrome.

In the few weeks that Cathi has worked with her, C.L. has begun to experience days without pain, periods of happiness, and a reduction in her opiate dosage requirements that represent a breakthrough in her stalled-out life as a single mom raising a teen-age daughter with only social security income resources.
Dr. Racer




“I first met Cathi Churchill eight years ago when she effectively helped my work unit through the stress of a hospital-wide layoff. I was impressed with her clear-minded approach and willingness to listen.”
Andy R.




N., age 60, is a hard driving attorney twenty year patient of mine who hit the wall with chronic fatigue four years ago, and began to realize she had to learn to rest. She recovered enough to return to her workaholic lifestyle when she was stopped by a herniated cervical disc and resumption of her chronic colitis.

Working with Cathi, she is discovering "the way she does life" and learning to make choices about it. She came in last week, having "danced until dawn". She is learning to dialogue with her body in effective ways.
Dr. Cole




“I stumbled upon Cathi after my recent heart attack that was brought on by stress. I was scared of having another one, and didn’t know what to do. I had lost hope. Working with her has changed my life. I’m so grateful."
Debbie – Canada




M.S., a woman in her late forties with progressively more and more disabling rheumatoid arthritis since childhood, whose most recent problems have arisen over the last two to three years as complications of immunosuppressive therapy for her disease. The complications have been associated with the severely disabling chronic pain of recurrent herpes neuralgia for more than three years, and for the past 15 months, recurrent osteomyelitis in her right lower mandible.

The second, more alarming (even life-threatening) problem has caused months of diagnostic and therapy confusion among her many consultants, three successive resections of the bone over the last six to eight months, and the still ongoing threat of more relapses of the smoldering bone infection and chronic pain only made bearable by chronic, massive doses of opiates.

In the few months since M. began to work with Cathi with several modalities: stress management, therapeutic touch, guided imaging, and others, her life has become more livable, as she has become able to bear the pain and the discouragement of unresolved disease.

She has relied on many of the methods for maintaining hope and getting through overwhelming discouragement by using the inner resources she has learned with Cathi.

My hope as her primary physician, is that Cathi and M. will be able to continue to work together to maintain that inner strength and hope as she faces yet more months of pain, and further repeated surgery.

Thank you for the healing guidance you've been able to give her thus far.
Dr. Racer




“I sought out the help of Cathi during my divorce, and found her to be an insightful and compassionate coach. Her ability to see deep into the heart of an emotionally stressful problem is, I believe, unique and I would highly recommend her service to anyone.”
P.R. – Brooklyn Center




S., age 48, is a Laotian patient of mine with 15 years of chronic abdominal pain. She has had an extensive medical worked up, and nothing ever worked. Cathi saw her over several months.

S. has improved! Cathi established a trusting relationship with her, and helped her to effectively break through her wall of silence and grief about her son's mental illness, and taught her how to "change her thinking".

S. now comes in smiling, notes some unusual continued symptoms, but no longer has chronic abdominal disabling pain.
Dr. Cole




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