Coaching practices for How to Get Past Work Anxiety

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• 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
• The worrying never clocks out
• 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
• A worry barges in mid-task and screams that it’s urgent, that I have to deal with it this second

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. 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
3. 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
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. 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
6. Use the unschedule: schedule leisure before work
   Block out guaranteed leisure and social time first, then fit work into what remains.
   The Now Habit, Made Practical
7. 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
8. Use a 15-minute end-of-day planning buffer to close the day’s loops
   Before leaving work, take 15 minutes to list tomorrow’s priorities and explicitly close today’s open loops.
   The Zeigarnik Effect: How Unfinished Tasks Occupy Your Mind
9. 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
10. 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

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