When work causes Anxiety
Do you ever get a pit in your stomach when you think about going to work? Or meeting with your boss or a potential client?
Your palms might get sweaty, your throat might feel dry, you might feel nauseous or get that sinking or butterfly feeling in your stomach.
Over the last couple of months these are some of the anxiety symptoms I’ve helped clients clear with Brainspotting. Most of these difficult symptoms cleared after just one session.
One. Session.
Think about that…
Have you ever had trouble sleeping the night before a big meeting?
They don’t call it the “Sunday Scaries” for nothing - it’s a pretty widely accepted thing to feel anxious on Sunday about the work week ahead.
But what happens when you absolutely can’t go to work because your anxiety and panic is just too high?
It might seem extreme, but I’ve known plenty of people to take leaves of absences, or stress leaves from work.
When I worked in county mental health, stress leaves were just part of the culture.
But I’m here to tell you, that is not normal!
You don’t have to accept that! You should feel confidant, calm, collected, level headed, and ready to tackle whatever your boss has to say, or whatever the project has in store for you.
We’ve all got to make money, my friend.
{I’m still waiting for that distant, filthy, rich aunt, or uncle to leave me millions in their will too}
But making money shouldn’t come at the cost of your mental health.
You also don’t have to be in an intense, high stress type of job to experience work-related anxiety.
Many times the stress and angst people experience is actually rooted in feelings of not being good enough, not producing enough, or just not being enough. Most of those underlying beliefs come from family of origin or childhood.
When we help clients find a brainspot and do some deep, focused processing, those old beliefs move from the hind-brain (where they produce mostly involuntary bodily responses) to the prefrontal cortex, and no longer produce physical, fight or flight symptoms.
I'm talking heading to the office singing to the music all the way there, sitting in a meeting with your thoughts cool, calm and collected, being asked questions and responding without a quiver in your voice, or a second guess, feeling grounded and in your power.
These are just a few of the ways my clients have described feeling after their Brainspotting sessions, and this could be you too!
Does this sound like something you’d like? Do you want to feel more joy, presence, and confidence at work?
You can request a free 15-minute phone consultation and our intake coordinator will answer all of your questions about the process, and get you booked with one of our therapists to have you on your way to less Sunday Scarries, and more presence and ability to focus on whatever you’d like to be enjoying instead!
