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Christine Armstrong 08/12/2023 Christine Armstrong 08/12/2023

One scientific way to reduce your festive stress 🎄

This week, the shiny science word that will guide us to good decisions through the festive blitz and into 2024. Appearing in your local panto as a feline barrister is not essential.

Christine Armstrong 14/07/2023 Christine Armstrong 14/07/2023

The secret to becoming a stress slasher

Stress at work is as contagious as the pox.

I once ruined a whole holiday in Cyprus… on the beach with three little girls. While we were ordering ice creams and booking those fabulous sea pedalos with slides, I was pinging increasingly pissy emails back and forth with my boss.

Christine Armstrong 21/04/2023 Christine Armstrong 21/04/2023

How to manage stress like the top 10%

This week on the vlog, we have Rob Cross on his new book The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems—and What to Do about It (gosh Americans Love Capital Letters!). Co-written with Karen Dillon and published by Harvard Business Review Press.

ChristineM Armstrong 17/12/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 17/12/2021

Finding JOY in a Slush Puppie

Last week I said I’d share our research into ways of making hybrid work within organisations, but with the week we’ve had—Omicrom tidal waves, WFH guidance, canned Christmas parties, and Mr Big and his Peloton—let’s save the worky stuff to January and focus on JOY.

ChristineM Armstrong 16/07/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 16/07/2021

Stressed out? Try the one next thing.

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star” – Stephen Hawking.

I think it was supposed to put our troubles into perspective, but sometimes events can be overwhelming…

ChristineM Armstrong 30/04/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 30/04/2021

What makes YOU prone to burn out?

One Monday morning in an agency, a colleague came into my office, slumped, and cried.

And cried.

He’d been working for weeks—and all weekend—for a difficult client. He was, I now know, burnt out: suffering a collapse of physical and emotional energy. I should have seen the signs and intervened much earlier.