Stress occurs among all groups in a school community and can affect morale, performance, and leadership ability. This article discusses how educators must deal with and control stress. Principals must address their own stress to create a healthy school culture. Moreover, the author presents two survival strategies that can provide support and build community. These strategies are: trusting relationships, and caring communities. Leading is a lonely and stressful job. School leaders are handed increased accountability amidst decreasing resources every day; it is no wonder that many are managing stress that is compromising their personal and professional health. Schooling today is far too demanding to go it alone. When educators create school cultures that emphasize trust and caring, places where teachers and principals see a shared responsibility for what is going on in the school building, they begin to survive the many harsh realities. Ultimately, it comes down to celebrating a place where everything is about relationships. If principals, teachers, and students can tend to one another in a trusting and caring atmosphere, they can begin to attend to what matters most: the students.