How to Reduce Work Stress and Anxiety With Simple Breathing Techniques

Squiggly Careers

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Business, Management, Careers

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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🦞 Join our Learn Like a Lobster Sprint: https://bit.ly/4oZzJ3F Sometimes work (and life) can feel full-on — especially at this time of year when deadlines, expectations and emotions all seem to intensify. Whether your mind is racing before a meeting, you’re feeling overwhelmed by everything on your plate, or emotions are getting in the way of what you want to say, these simple and science-backed breathing practices can help you reset, refocus and respond with more calm and clarity. Episode 518 🦞 Pre-order Learn Like A Lobster: 🇺🇸 PRH US – https://bit.ly/3KxTeBn 🇬🇧 Amazon UK – https://amzn.to/3KcRZaR 🎯 What You’ll Learn • How your breath affects stress, energy, clarity and emotional control at work • Three practical “when–then–why” breathing techniques for real situations (racing mind, overwhelm and emotional moments) • How to use AI to personalise quick breathing resets you can use between meetings or on the move 📚 Resources Mentioned: Breathe In Breathe Out by Stuart Sanderman - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breathe-Out-practical-management-improved/dp/0008543275#:~:text=Since%20tragic%20loss%20brought%20him,way%20you%20think%20and%20feel. Breathpod - https://www.breathpod.com/ Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor https://www.mrjamesnestor.com/breath-book For questions about Squiggly Careers or to share feedback, please email helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 📩 Download our free career tools: https://www.amazingif.com/toolkit/ 🏃‍♀️ Join the Skills x AI Sprint: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNQl9gsac8BXnWe2qoGuHkLKwsygjP_Ma&si=l7kODG3JpopH0Irz 📮 Get Squiggly Careers in Action in your inbox: https://bit.ly/SquigglyCareersInAction 📚 Read our books: The Squiggly Career and You Coach You: https://www.amazingif.com/books/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast. And before you listen to today's episode, I just
0:05.0	want to let you know about some news that Sarah and I are very excited about. And that is that our new book,
0:09.8	Learn Like a Lobster, is ready to pre-order now. We really care about everybody learning and growing at work,
0:16.7	but we know it is not easy to do. And so we're borrowing some brilliance from lobsters to help you to do it.
0:22.9	The book takes three inspiring and surprising abilities of lobsters in terms of how they grow
0:29.0	and applies it to how we can learn at work. So if you want some inspiration and you need some
0:34.0	practical insights to support your learning, growth and development. This is the book for you.
0:38.9	And if you pre-order now and send your pre-order to hello at learn like a lobster.com,
0:43.8	you can join the lobster library where we have a community of lobster learners ready for you to learn with,
0:50.1	some live sessions, and this will all happen before the book arrives.
0:54.3	So pre-order the book now, send it to hello at learn like a lobster.com and get started with
0:59.6	your learning straight away. Now let's get on to today's episode.
1:03.6	Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast where every week we borrow
1:09.2	some brilliance from a person, a place, an object, a thing
1:13.5	of some description. And we try to turn that curiosity into useful action for your career.
1:19.5	And today, our thing is breathing. I'm so, I'm so, I feel like we've gone back to basics.
1:27.1	I'm so happy I've convinced you to this episode.
1:29.2	I think you must have been sceptical about us doing an episode on breathing.
1:33.9	Yes.
1:34.6	Though I have read, I know we're going to talk about four box breathing.
1:38.5	That particular kind of technique, I have read a lot of evidence around, you know,
1:43.5	that works for kind of high-performing
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