Work Stress Anxiety | Burnout Prevention & Work Anxiety Help
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.
Work Stress Anxiety | Burnout Prevention & Work Anxiety Help
Latest Episodes
When Nothing You Do Is Good Enough | Work Stress & Perfectionism
High-functioning anxiety and perfectionism can make you feel like nothing your team does is ever good enough. But here's the truth: the problem isn't their work. It's your nervous system running on overdrive. Learn how burnout disguises itself ...
How to Reduce Work Stress by Trusting Your Team—Without Lowering Your Standards
If you’ve ever gone home and realised your mind is still “on shift,” you’ll relate to Ella. She’s a lead electrician on construction sites, responsible for ensuring safe and compliant work, and she has a strong team around her. However, she kee...
How Leaders Use Play To Cut Stress | Nervous System Reset
High-achieving women often push harder to manage stress—but what if the real stress recovery strategy is play? Join Cheryl Paris and Zander Phelps as they unpack why nervous system regulation through play isn't a distraction, it's a leadership ...
Why Your Brain Can't Fix Burnout — Play Coach Explains
When work stress hits, your first instinct is to think harder—but that's exactly what keeps high-achievers stuck. In this episode, Cheryl sits down with Zander, a play coach who treats play as a nervous system regulation skill, not childish fil...
Play Your Way Out of Work Stress | Nervous System Reset for Busy Women
When did you last genuinely play—not perform, not doom-scroll, but actually play? In this episode, we explore why nervous system regulation and burnout prevention start with reclaiming unstructured play, the stress recovery strategy high-achiev...
