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Pressure Doesn’t Have to Travel: How Stressed Leadership Erodes Culture, and What Healthier Leadership Looks Like
In many workplaces, pressure does not stop with leadership. It travels. What begins as stress at the top often arrives at employees as urgency, criticism, or quiet disrespect—delivered through tone, messages, and expectations that carry emotional weight far beyond the task itself. Over time, this transfer of pressure erodes trust, damages health, and weakens culture. Work challenges are inevitable. Emotional harm is not. Between every problem and its solution, there is a path—and that path does not need to be paved with stress.
Back to School, Back to Trauma? Not This Year.
As a new school year begins, many families are not just preparing backpacks and schedules—they are bracing for stress. For some children, school has been a place of shame, comparison, and chronic struggle rather than growth. Academic difficulty is often misunderstood as laziness or lack of effort, when it more often reflects unmet needs or lagging skills.
This year can be different. When educators respond with compassion instead of assumptions, and when parents recognize the emotional toll school pressure can take, children regain something essential: belief in themselves. School should not be a source of trauma. It should be a place where confidence is rebuilt, not broken.
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