Coaching practices for How to Get Over Work Related Anxiety

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• Even once the worst of it passes, I can’t get back into the room
• When I make myself face the scary scenario I end up still wound up and rattled afterward, and then I dread doing it again
• My thoughts are racing in circles and I can’t think my way out of the spiral
• 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 get through a hard thing and then just move on without ever clocking that I handled it, so it never seems to make the next one any easier

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Debrief after each stressful encounter
   Within 24 hours of a challenging event, review what you did, what worked, and what you will adjust.
   Stress Inoculation Training
6. 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
7. 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.
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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

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