Why Understanding the Stress Response Is Key to Employee Wellbeing

🧠 Stress: Why We Need to Go Back to Basics

Before we talk about sleep, resilience, or high performance, we need to talk about stress. In this short episode, I explain why understanding the stress response is the essential starting point for any employee wellbeing programme or webinar—and why skipping this step is like building on sand.

🧬 What Stress Is (And What It Isn’t)

There are some fantastic employee wellbeing programmes and employee wellbeing webinars available today—covering everything from nutrition and sleep to leadership and energy management.

But if your people don’t understand what stress actually is, none of it sticks.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why 99% of physical health conditions begin with the stress response

• What the freeze, fight, flight, and fawn patterns look like in real time

• How stress is created internally—not by tasks, people, or job roles

🧠 Laying the Right Foundation for Wellness at Work

Wellbeing isn’t something we layer on top of burnout.
It’s something we build from the inside out—starting with awareness.

This episode helps you reframe:

• Why awareness of the neuroscience of stress is the first step to real change

• How stress patterns become invisible without education

• Why this is the foundation of wellness at work and not a “nice to have”

🎧 Listen Now

If your organisation is investing in wellbeing but still seeing high stress levels, this episode offers a simple but powerful truth:
Until people understand what’s happening in their own bodies and minds, nothing else can take root.

💬 Want to Introduce the Basics of Stress to Your Teams?

Our employee wellbeing webinars and employee wellbeing programmes bring the science of stress into the workplace in a practical, accessible way—helping your people build real capacity and clarity.

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