Coaching practices for How Do I Deal with Work Anxiety
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I treat every single worry like a problem demanding a solution, so I build elaborate contingency plans for things that haven’t even happened and probably never will, and it leaves me wrung out
- I spend my days bracing for the next wave of it, scanning my body, dreading the moment it shows up
- Before I can even start facing my fears head-on, I have to stop them ambushing me at every hour
- Even once the worst of it passes, I can’t get back into the room
- My boss keeps checking in and hovering over my work, and it makes me feel untrusted
Practices that may help
- Productive Problem-Solving vs. Worry
Distinguish solvable worries — which need a plan — from hypothetical ones — which need acceptance or defusion.
Worry Time: Containing Anxiety With Scheduled Worry - Run toward the feeling
Actively invite more of the anxiety rather than waiting nervously for it to pass.
The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical - Worry stimulus control: confine worry to a designated time
Schedule a 20-minute daily "worry period" and postpone all worry outside it.
Worry Exposure, Made Practical - Engage with the present moment
Once the edge comes off, redirect attention fully into an activity or your surroundings.
The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical - Send proactive, brief status updates
Update your manager on important work before they ask — in the format and frequency they actually want.
Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss - Contain worry with a scheduled worry period
Assign worry a 20-minute daily window — and redirect it there the rest of the day.
Accepting Uncertainty: The Core Skill in CBT for GAD - Note the worry and defer it
When a worry arises off-schedule, jot it down and postpone it to the window — don’t engage now.
Worry Postponement, Made Practical - Rehearse the response before you need it
Learn and practice the four steps in low-stakes moments so they are available under pressure.
The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical - The Anxiety Toolkit, Made Practical
A practical anxiety toolkit pulls together a handful of evidence-informed skills — grounding, breathing, interoceptive awareness, behavioral experiments, and balanced self-talk — so you have the right tool for the moment instead of one move for every situation. Several of these rest on solid clinical and experimental support. They are self-help skills for everyday stress and anxiety; for severe or persistent anxiety, use them alongside professional care. - Run the full 5-4-3-2-1 sequence
Work through all five senses in order: 5 things seen, 4 heard, 3 touched, 2 smelled, 1 tasted.
The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique
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Distinguish solvable worries — which need a plan — from hypothetical ones — which need acceptance or defusion.
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Distinguish solvable worries — which need a plan — from hypothetical ones — which need acceptance or defusion.
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