Stress is a bodily adaptation phenomenon that allows us to react to our environment.
Our body responds to a stressful context with a 3-phase reaction (alarm, resistance, exhaustion). This is the general adaptation syndrome discovered in 1935 by Hans Selye.
The general adaptation syndrome describes the physiological mechanisms of stress in three phases:
If stress becomes chronic, our ability to react is impaired, our body becomes exhausted, and various pathological consequences appear.
Some people who are very involved in their work, perfectionistic, and ambitious by nature seem more predisposed to professional burnout. Heavy family responsibilities and unconscious personal conflicts experienced simultaneously aggravate this predisposition, as does emotional loneliness.
Burnout, chronic stress, seems to affect men and women in equal proportions, across all professions.
Why use a coach?
Coaching will allow the emergence of new responses to the risk of burn out:
- Take a step back from your professional situation.
- Analyze the issues and resources available to regain balance, refocus on yourself.
- Manage your stress and become aware of the link between your thoughts (ruminations), your emotions, and your behaviors.
- Improve your time management and the organization of your activities, define priorities, set realistic goals and achieve them.
- Become aware of your potential and regain the self-confidence necessary to let go.
- Anchor yourself in the present and be able to project yourself into the future.
- Undertake your change by freeing yourself from your fears, build your projects, whether they are professional or personal.
- Resolve your relationship difficulties, learn to communicate, assert yourself, and manage conflicts.
- Understand and react, better defend yourself, and bounce back.
