Coaching practices for How to Deal with Work Related Anxiety

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• 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
• Even once the worst of it passes, I can’t get back into the room
• Before I can even start facing my fears head-on, I have to stop them ambushing me at every hour
• My boss keeps checking in and hovering over my work, and it makes me feel untrusted
• When I make myself face the scary scenario I end up still wound up and rattled afterward, and then I dread doing it again

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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.
3. 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
4. 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
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. Combine worry exposure with relaxation skill
   After the exposure period, apply a relaxation practice to close each session with a deactivation phase.
   Worry Exposure, Made Practical
7. 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
8. 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
9. De-activation Strategies for Over-Arousal
   Use targeted techniques to reduce arousal when anxiety or over-activation is undermining performance.
   The Yerkes-Dodson Law: Finding Your Optimal Performance Zone
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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