Sarah Burgess has just taken up her first deputy headship post at St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School in Blackpool: a new job, new staff, new children - a completely new environment to get to know. A few weeks into the term and she calls in Teachers' TV's life coach Gladeana McMahon to help her stop working 12 to 14-hour days and spend some quality time with her boyfriend. Adding management tasks to an already fully committed teaching life she feels has tipped the balance. She tells Gladeana And the thing that happens to me when I'm the most stressed is that I am forgetful. So I'll lose my purse, lose my phone, lose my keys or say 'Where's my glasses?'. And I know when I say that, I know instantly that I have worked too much or need to slow down but I don't. And with marriage plans in the offing and the desire to start a family, as well as the long term aim of headship, she will have to listen hard to what Gladeana has to say if she is going to stay in control.

Video Series: Ease the Load
Release Date 2006