Beckie is a trained and qualified coach and hypnotherapist and alongside this she has been clerking for 10 years. Beckie understands the juggling of roles as a clerk and the seemingly never ending to-do list, which is why she is so passionate about helping and inspiring other clerks. Beckie shares her top tips on stress and time management and achieving work-life balance. You Will Discover: - Strategies for managing stress & avoiding burnout - Techniques for effective time management - The importance of work-life balance and how to achieve it

1. Time, Stress and Work
Life Balance

2. Who am I ?
Beckie Whitehouse
Parish Clerk
Coach
NLP Practitioner
Hypnotherapist
EFT Practitioner

3. What we will cover!
Stress management - what it is and top tips
Time management - what we mean and top tips
These are all interlinked
When we are stressed our time management can get lost and our work life balance can
become skewed.
Long term stress can lead to burnout (physical and emotional exhaustion)
Work Life Balance - what it is and top tips

4. organisation - know what you are doing when
day, week, month, year.
especially if you clerk for more than one parish or have
another role/job
one way is to start with the most important job
doesn't appeal - set the timer and just start with 5 mins
or the Pomodoro Technique (25mins of work then 5
mins rest).
Time Management - the key to
efficient working generally

5. What is stress?
Stress is our response to harmful or
threatening situations.
Linked to the limbic system - fight or flight
During a stress response, your breathing,
blood pressue and heart rate increase
You are getting ready to fight or run away

6. Stress
has a range of symptoms
Cognative symptoms - worrying, lack of focus and concentration
Physical symptoms - headches, tense jaw, stomach/chest pain
Emotional symptoms - frustration, irritability, difficult relaxing
Behavioural symptoms - sleep disturbance, nail biting, self neglect,
reliance on alcohol or drugs.

7. Stress
long term stress
This is likely to be short term but long term stress
can lead to :
Mental health problems
Heart disease - high blood pressure, abnormal heart
rhythms
Stroke
Eating disorders
Skin and hair problems
Gastrointestinal problems - ulcers, IBS

8. Boundaries
1.
Take a break
2.
Workload
3.
Fresh air and excercise
4.
A great question to ask is it will it be
the end of the world if...?
5.
Take your holiday
6.
Mindfulness
7.
Connection
8.
Stress management top tips

9. Breath in for 4
Hold for 4
Breath out for 4
Hold for 4
Box Breathing

10. It could be based on deadline, available hours
to work or its calculated impact.
Think do you need extra help and from whom
and a reminder this is not a sign of weakness
Prioritization

11. Balance between personal and work life - no single element of
life dominates and overwhelms the others.
Doesn’t mean 50:50 split.
Can change at different times and may mean different things
to different people.
Work Life Balance

12. It’s about harmony
between the demands on your time and
energy, without neglecting the things that are
important to you
its not about ignoring personal life in favour of
your work or dealing with work stress by
neglecting your work

13. Do you have any questions for me before we go?
you can find me
www.facebook.com/cloudlessskycoaching
www.facebook.com/groups/mostlymums
www.linkedin.com/in/beckie-cloudlessskycoaching