Welcome to the Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Milne Tite.

This time on the show, how stress affects women at work and everywhere else.

I didn't share what was happening with any of my family or friends for quite some time.

And I would just march forward like a good soldier to go to work and do good things there.

And what we can do about it.

It's about communicating what you need and want in the right language,

but it's also about asking questions.

Coming up, managing stress in the 21st century workplace.

One of the most common things I hear female friends and colleagues say is either they're crazy

busy or they're stressed or both.

The latest stress survey from the American Psychological Association was released in early February.

It says women continue to report higher levels of stress than men.

In one statistic, 51% of women said they'd lain awake at night in the last month because of stress versus a third of men.

Now, I've read various articles where the writers say, look, stress is not a bad thing.

It's a normal bodily response to adversity.

It keeps us on our toes and helps us get things done.

I get that.

But many working women are overwhelmed by stress. It's affecting their health and they need help digging out.

In this episode, we hear one woman's story of extreme stress, and we hear from a therapist who sees a lot of clients withering under the more mundane strains of modern life.

She offers some solutions.

First to Jen Yip. She works in technology in Northern California, and she's quite recently emerged from a stressful existence that went on for

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