3 Practical Ways To Manage Working From Home Anxiety During Lockdown
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this solo episode, the 6th of this season which is more geared towards helping us cope better during Covid-19, I take a look at some recent research that has emerged about how we are getting on working from home. Unfortunately, there is a huge increase in anxiety for several reasons, and that's understandable and okay but there are things we can do to put us back in the driving seat which will positively impact your symptoms of anxiety. Couple these with the mindset approaches we've been working on throughout this series and you will notice an improvement as your are shifting your focus towards what you can control and away from dwelling on that which you can't.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to Owning It. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media. If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column. Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolinephorun.substack.com. Thank you. |
| 0:20.2 | Hello, dear listener and welcome back to to Owning at the Anxiety Podcast, with me, your host, |
| 0:25.5 | an author of the books on which this series is based, Caroline Forin. |
| 0:29.2 | I hope you guys are well, as well as can be, and thank you so much to those of you who've |
| 0:33.9 | become subscribers over on Patreon. it is just so appreciated that people |
| 0:38.3 | support the podcast with a few quid, even just the price for coffee, because it means I'm |
| 0:42.6 | able to keep it going and hopefully keep offering helpful insights that make a real difference |
| 0:46.8 | to your life. So if you two are listening and would like to tip the podcast, no pressure, |
| 0:51.5 | but if you'd like to, please go to patreon.com forward slash Caroline Forn. I will keep, |
| 0:56.1 | of course, making the podcast free to listen to. Now, this week, I want to talk about something a little |
| 1:01.1 | bit more tangible and more practical. So the anxiety that we're experiencing as we work from |
| 1:05.9 | home, last week, LinkedIn shared some interesting research around the challenges we're facing as we |
| 1:11.4 | try to adapt to this whole working from home idea. There's a lot of anxiety relating to working |
| 1:16.4 | from home in these particular circumstances, mostly because we were thrust into it without having |
| 1:21.2 | had any real choice in the matter. And lots of people are juggling working from home with childcare |
| 1:26.6 | and homeschooling, which I can only |
| 1:28.6 | imagine is just near impossible. And then for the rest of us, we have the lack of boundaries between |
| 1:33.0 | home and work life, the financial anxiety, the worry that we might not have jobs to go back to |
| 1:37.6 | after all of this, the pressure we feel to be available at all hours of the day in case our bosses |
| 1:42.3 | think that we're, you know, maybe not that necessary after all. And if you're just starting out in your career, |
| 1:47.0 | you might be anxious about there being a big, God knows how long, a pause button, |
| 1:51.9 | hanging over your progress. And each day we're not just doing our job, if we're looking |
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