G100 Healthcare & Wellness Wing - Stress Awareness Month

G100 Healthcare & Wellness Wing - Stress Awareness Month

April is Stress Awareness Month, and in this powerful conversation with Keely Woolley - G100 - Healthcare & Wellness Wing Chair for Kent and Louise Adams, G100 - Healthcare and Wellness Wing Chair for Wales, to have an open, heartfelt dialogue on the often-unseen impact of stress, burnout, particularly for women.

From personal stories of burnout, PTSD, people-pleasing, and hidden trauma, to powerful reminders about boundaries, breathwork, and body awareness, this is an unfiltered, deeply relatable, and hopeful discussion for every professional woman trying to do it all.

LOUISE’S STORY

🗣️ “My journey with stress began in a very real way. After being threatened at work with a gun, yes, a gun — I was treated for PTSD. That led me into clinical complementary therapy and over 20 years of work in critical care and end-of-life services. I’ve seen stress up close, and I’ve lived it.”

KEELY’S BURNOUT EXPERIENCE

🧠 “After 23 years in corporate, I thought redundancy was my breaking point. But the truth? I’d already burned out. Always saying yes, always bouncing back… until I couldn’t. I thought I was strong, but I was silently suffering. Keely's own personal journey of recovery lead her to now help and guide other executives, leaders and professional women to avoid or escape burnout.”

THE COST OF PEOPLE-PLEASING

💬 “Women are expected to hold it all together. We serve, we nurture, we organise… and we ignore the signs. Headaches, IBS, brain fog, we treat them as one-offs. But they’re whispers from the body. And eventually, the body shouts.”

BOUNDARIES & BREATHING
🌬️ “If you do one thing today, breathe. Set an hourly alarm. Pause. Just two minutes. It reconnects you to yourself. And learn to say ‘No, thank you.’ Without apology. It’s not selfish. It’s essential.”

THE BODY DOESN’T LIE
💡 “Stress settles in the body when we don’t address it. Whether it’s trauma, grief, burnout, if the mind doesn’t deal with it, the body does. And eventually, it shuts you down. I’ve seen it in myself, and in my clients.”

CLOSING THOUGHTS

🧘‍♀️ “You don’t have to wait for crisis to get support. Listen to the signs now. You deserve to lead and live from a place of calm, clarity and confidence.”
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