Coaching practices for How to Manage Work 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
• My boss keeps checking in and hovering over my work, and it makes me feel untrusted
• 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
• 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. 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. 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
3. 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.
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. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. Use grounding before anxiety peaks, not after
    Start the technique at the first sign of anxiety — not once the wave is overwhelming.
    The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique

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