'Full-time working-from-home has provided the freedom — and safety — to try strategies I wouldn’t have otherwise attempted due to my anxiety. This experiment is a work in progress, but I’ve found some fixes I think will serve me well when I commute again.'
. That combination plays out in some debilitating ways. Here are some of my major roadblocks and WFH solutions:When I’m feeling anxious, moving helps. In the office, I worry that I will disturb my coworkers, so I don’t satisfy that need. Fighting back the impulse to move, of course, distracts me from my job. Walking the line between caring for myself and bothering others is something I do all day long at work. At home, I can move about freely, play with aWFH Challenge #2: Handling criticism.
Writing is a big part of my job — I work in marketing for a small tech start-up in Chicago. The process involves receiving feedback from other members of my team and, while I know editing is necessary to get the job done, it triggers self-doubt, extreme bouts of rage, and unbearable sadness. Those who criticized my work most became either my mortal enemy or the person I tried hardest to please in the office.
Communicating via Slack has been helpful socially as well. Behavioral health experts say online communications can be a minefield for psychological safety because the written word can easily be misread as ambiguous or sarcastic and trigger unhealthy ruminating. The opposite is true for me!Since conversation histories are preserved in Slack, I can remind myself that a coworker does like me by scrolling back to see when they laughed at a meme or comment I shared.
It’s incredibly rewarding to cross off goals at the end of the day. I keep the completed goals in my planner so I know what I did the previous day, which helps me plan my new day and helps me keep track of my week. I’m fortunate to have job security right now, but I’m still nervous about the economic downturn. After receiving assurance from leadership recently, I wrote down a few things they said that made me feel most secure and put those points on a Post-It note. When I start to feel nervous about job security, I look at the sticky and it puts those worries at ease.When I find myself getting anxious during the workday, I allow myself to take short breaks to clean up something around the house.
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