Coaching practices for How to Cope with Job Anxiety

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• There’s this nameless background fear about losing my job or my income that I never look at directly, so it just hums under everything
• The worrying never clocks out
• I spend my days bracing for the next wave of it, scanning my body, dreading the moment it shows up
• 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

1. Imagine losing your work or income
   Briefly contemplate life without your current livelihood, to loosen financial anxiety and restore perspective.
   Negative Visualization, the Stoic Practice
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Reframe from "preventing catastrophe" to "coping with discomfort"
   Shift the goal of entering feared situations from preventing disaster to practicing tolerance.
   Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical
7. Map your safety-behavior inventory
   List every action you take to prevent feared outcomes in anxiety-provoking situations.
   Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical
8. 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
9. Ask: could you cope even if the worst happened?
   Catastrophizing also underestimates your coping capacity — examine that half of the equation.
   Decatastrophizing, Made Practical
10. Make context-specific cards for your highest-trigger situations
    Generic cards help less than cards written for the exact situation where you need them — work, medical appointments, social events.
    The Coping Card

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