Everything is hitting you all at once. Your inbox is full.Someone said something sideways to you or gave you the side-eye. Your body is running on fumes because you haven’t had a moment to eat. Heck… it seems like you haven’t had a moment to just breathe, and you feel yourself starting tospiral.

Your thoughts go dark and negative. Your chest gets tight.Your head starts to hurt and suddenly you react to everything and everyone from a place of pure overwhelm. When that happens, things turn ugly.

What if I told you there's a space that is powerful andintentional between the triggers and the spiral? My friend and mentor shared it with me, and I will share it with you. On today’s episode, I’m introducing you to a strategy called Holding Neutral. In this episode of “Stress Talk” Live with Marcyline, we are going to talk about “3 Steps Wise Women Take to Lower Stress and Boost Happiness Every Day.”

Marcyline Bailey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in theState of Georgia, a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers and a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP®.)

She is the owner of ⁠M.L. Bailey Consultants, LLC⁠, a private therapy practice that specializes in grief, loss, anxiety, and depression.

Ms. Bailey is the host of "Stress Talk" an audio/videopodcast that focuses on helping women live healthy lives through strategic stress management and solution focused self-care.

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83% of US workers suffer from work-related stress. Thinkabout that for a moment.

Can you name what causes you to feel stressed? Many of youwill say “I love my job, but and then fill in the blank with the very thing that stresses you. How many of you would fill that blank with a type of person, a specific name or a job title? Dealing with co-workers is difficult. It can also lead to anxiety, burnout and that feeling of dread you experience everySunday night.

In this episode of “Stress Talk” with Marcyline, we aregoing to share “3 Hidden Ways Your Co-Workers are Triggering Your Stress.” We will break down the seven most common types of stressful colleagues, get into the psychology behind why they act that way, and give you concrete, actionable strategies to cut stress and regain your power.

Marcyline Bailey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in theState of Georgia, a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers and a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP®.) She is the owner of ⁠M.L. Bailey Consultants, LLC⁠, a private therapy practice that specializes in grief, loss, anxiety, and depression.

Ms. Bailey is the host of "Stress Talk" a podcast that focuses on helping women live healthy lives through strategic stressmanagement and solution focused self-care.

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You’ve met all your deadlines, responded to all your emailsand you have managed to clear your desk. What is causing you to still feel that tight knot of stress in your stomach? When you get home, you feel totally wiped out, as if you ran a marathon. You were seated at your desk all day.

You probably blame the workload, the pressure from youradmin team, or the never-ending emails. The real problem, however, is something you’re not even noticing? What if the very room you work in is waging a secret war on your well-being?

That’s right. Your office might be quietly cranking up yourstress levels. It’s not just in your head; it’s in the walls, the lights, and the air around you. The constant hum of the building, the flickering lights, the non-stop chatter. All of this secretly sabotages your calm. The good news is that you can fight back.

We're about to expose seven hidden ways your office ismaking you anxious and, more importantly, show you exactly how to fix them. In this episode of “Stress Talk” Live with Marcyline, we are going to share “7 Hidden Ways Your Office Space is Sabotaging Your Calm.”

Marcyline Bailey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in theState of Georgia, a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers and a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP®.) She is the owner of ⁠M.L. Bailey Consultants, LLC⁠, a private therapy practice that specializes in grief, loss, anxiety, and depression.

Ms. Bailey is the host of "Stress Talk" a podcast that focuses on helping women live healthy lives through strategic stress management and solution focused self-care.

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It is 2 am and you are wide awake.

It feels as if someone pressed a button that caused you tostart thinking and you cannot turn it off. The more you think, the wider awake you become. You look at the clock, and it is now 2:30 am. You turn over thinking that you must get up at 6am.  The thoughts are flowing like a river now. You try lying on your other side. That doesn’t work. You try lying on your back. Nope.

You pick up your phone and scroll. It’s just bad news. Whereare the funny posts? You look at the clock, and it is 3 am. You sigh and with frustrated resignation decide that you are going to be sleepy and grumpy at work tomorrow.

In this episode of “Stress Talk” Live with Marcyline, we aregoing to share “3 Reliable Sleep Habits that Actually Stop Anxiety from Waking You Up.”

Marcyline Bailey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in theState of Georgia, a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers and a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP®.) She is the owner of ⁠M.L. Bailey Consultants, LLC⁠, a private therapy practice that specializes in grief, loss, anxiety, and depression.

Ms. Bailey is the host of "Stress Talk" a podcast that focuses on helping women live healthy lives through strategic stressmanagement and solution focused self-care.

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You took a break. You switched from your computer screen and picked up your phone. Why do you still feel like you need a break after going back to your computer screen? Was it the notifications? Was it the newsfeed?

You laughed at a few silly posts. People are so clever.Isn’t laughter supposed to relieve stress? Why after 15 minutes of scrolling do you still feel tense, nervous or on edge?

The “break” you just took wasn’t the “break” that you neededto calm and rest your mind. Instead of turning off the stress response, your internal alarm system, your “break” gave it more fuel.

In this episode of “Stress Talk” Live with Marcyline, we aregoing to break down the science of what is causing your “breaks” to fail and what your brain needs to recover when we share “Useless Breaks – Try Four Stress Breaks that Actually Work.”

Marcyline Bailey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in theState of Georgia, a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers and a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP®.) She is the owner of ⁠M.L. Bailey Consultants, LLC⁠, a private therapy practice that specializes in grief, loss, anxiety, and depression.

Ms. Bailey is the host of "Stress Talk" a podcastthat focuses on helping women live healthy lives through strategic stress management and solution focused self-care.

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So, the vacation is over. You are returning to work tomorrowand that relaxed, happy feeling you had a few days ago has been replaced by a quiet, creeping dread. Your out-of-office message is still up, but the reality of your overflowing inbox, the mountain of laundry, and getting back to the grind is setting in hard. That feeling is the post-holiday Sunday blues, and it’s like a massive emotional hangover. If you've got a pit in your stomach or a tightness in your chest, you are not alone. Some research shows that many people, maybe as many as 70%, dread the start of the workweek. It's a type ofanticipatory anxiety—basically, you're stressing about a future that hasn't even happened yet.

For a lot of us, especially women over 40 this post-holidaycrash can feel extra intense. Before you let anxiety hijack the last few precious hours of your weekend, what if I told you there are ways to get your calm back? I’m not talking about the generic advice you’ve heard a million times. In this podcast, I’m sharing five unexpected hacks to help you crushthose post-holiday Sunday blues and start your week feeling strong and in control.

In this episode of Stress Talk Live with Marcyline, I amsharing “5 Surprising Hacks to Crush the Post-Holiday Sunday Blues.”

Marcyline Bailey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in theState of Georgia, a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers and a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP®.) She is the owner of ⁠M.L. Bailey Consultants, LLC⁠, a private therapy practice that specializes in grief, loss, anxiety, and depression.

Ms. Bailey is the host of "Stress Talk" a video and audio podcast that focuses on helping women live healthy lives through strategic stress management and solution focused self-care.

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The start of the new year tends to bring pressure, doesn’tit? We are pressured to achieve more, to do more or to be more. Because of this, we make lists of goals to accomplish the feat. “I am going to lose weight.”“This year, I am going to get that promotion.” “This is the year; we clean and purge the house.” “I am going to be fluent in Spanish by the end of the year!”

Before the end of January, these goals have probably fadedinto the background of our lives. Resolutions become the catalyst for jokes. We laugh and with resignation stay the same. These types of resolutions make us think that we can change our lives from the outside in. However, healing andchange occur from the inside out.  

In this episode of “Stress Talk” Live with Marcyline, we aregoing to share “The 4 Mindfulness Habits That Will Change Your 2026.”

Marcyline Bailey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in theState of Georgia, a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers and a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP®.) She is the owner of ⁠M.L. Bailey Consultants, LLC⁠, a private therapy practice that specializes in grief, loss, anxiety, and depression.

Ms. Bailey is the host of "Stress Talk" a podcast that focuses on helping women live healthy lives through strategic stressmanagement and solution focused self-care.

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Are you already dreaming of enjoying holiday cheer, butdreading the reality of staring at the ceiling all night unable to sleep restfully? For women over 40, those 3 a.m. hot flashes are no joke, especially when you have a full day of family festivities ahead. They don’t stop just because of special occasions. If the thought of restless nights and zombie-likedays is already giving you anxiety, I have some information that you may find helpful. This podcast will walk you through three simple routines designed tohelp you sleep through the night and feel like yourself this holiday season.

In this episode of “Stress Talk” Live with Marcyline, we aresharing how you can “Sleep Through the Entire Night this Holiday.”

Marcyline Bailey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in theState of Georgia, a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers and a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP®.) She is the owner of ⁠M.L. Bailey Consultants, LLC⁠, a private therapy practice that specializes in grief, loss, anxiety, and depression.

Ms. Bailey is the host of "Stress Talk" a podcast that focuses on helping women live healthy lives through strategic stressmanagement and solution focused self-care.

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Do you feel like the holidays are going to break you? Somany of us run on fumes during this time of year. This sometimes leaves us feeling resentful because of all the demands. Everyone in your family requires something from you, including your spouse, your children and your agingparents.

If you are like me, you may try to hide in the bathroom justto get a few moments of peace. Sometimes family will invade that space as well.

If you work, it seems as if work demands increase as well.Timelines shorten. Expectations intensify. The unexpected happens requiring all hands on deck to put out the fire.

A while back, I knew I had to do something to get throughthe holidays without losing it. As a result, I created a simple mental reset routine that saved me and helped me find real joy in the season again.

In this episode of “Stress Talk” Live, we are kicking offour Get Though the Holidays Without Losing It series with “From Overwhelmed to Empowered My Holiday Reset Routine.”

Marcyline Bailey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in theState of Georgia, a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers and a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP®.) She is the owner of ⁠M.L. Bailey Consultants, LLC⁠, a private therapy practice that specializes in grief, loss, anxiety, and depression.

Ms. Bailey is the host of "Stress Talk" a podcast that focuses on helping women live healthy lives through strategic stress management and solution focused self-care.

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Your holiday burnout is a trap.

You’re making lists, double checking them, and still havethat nagging feeling that you're failing at a time of the year that is supposed to be full of magic. If the whole festive season feels less festive and more frantic, you’re not alone.

You’re caught in a trap that is made of expectations,obligations, and that quiet, crushing pressure to be happy all the time. It’s a trap that tricks you into thinking your exhaustion is a personal failing, that your stress just means you're not grateful enough, and that your desire tojust… stop… is a betrayal of the holiday spirit.

Today, I am going to help you change that perception andgive you the 7 truths that dismantle this pressure trap and allow you to finally breathe this holiday season.

In this episode of “Stress Talk” Live with Marcyline, we aregoing to share “Overwhelmed This Season? 7 Simple Actions to Regain Control.”

Marcyline Bailey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in theState of Georgia, a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers and a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP®.) She is the owner of ⁠M.L. Bailey Consultants, LLC⁠, a private therapy practice that specializes in grief, loss, anxiety, and depression.

Ms. Bailey is the host of "Stress Talk" a podcast that focuses on helping women live healthy lives through strategic stress management and solution focused self-care.

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