Mental Health News Radio

Christine Monaghan joins our podcast network with her show Stress Is Optional. She and our host, Kristin Sunanta Walker, discuss her show, what Stress Is Optional means to her, and her personal story.Christine started her coaching practice in 2004 and has influenced 1000+ clients in individual and group settings.You’re ambitious, motivated and considered a success by peers and friends. You hold high levels of responsibility in all life areas. Despite daily due diligence, your repetitive inner voice says “just get through this project/deadline, then you will…” Of course, another deadline arises. More and more, your normal experience is: unrelenting pressure to complete unrealistic to-do’s; new projects on top of their current workload; and, the majority of time spent working in vs on your leadership role. Your result? Feeling compromised, a dulled vibrancy and ever-present, wearing stress. Your conversations, commitments, choice reflect this. You wonder what happened and when. Self-care and relationships becom