Owning Your Anxiety At Work

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

Overwhelm, Education, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Caroline Foran, Stress, Anxiety

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Not sure how to communicate your anxiety at work? To your boss? Anxious about how to manage your anxiety when you are the leader and you don't want to appear unprofessional? Navigating mental health at work can be tricky and bring about anxiety in itself. This is a really necessary episode of Owning It where executive coach Lucy Gernon helps us to figure out how best to approach these situations in the workplace. How to bring it up? How to normalise anxiety at work? Should we be talking about it in the interview before we get the job? For more with Lucy visit https://www.lucygernon.com. Follow me on @OwningItPodcast for more.

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0:00.0	I'm Caroline Forrin, host of Owning It, the Anxiety podcast, and I want to tell you about owning it real time.
0:07.6	Understanding your anxiety is one thing, but knowing how to move through it as and when it hits you is another.
0:13.5	Owning it real time is a new series of situation-specific audio guides that comfort and support you when you need it most.
0:20.2	Anxiety first thing in the morning,
0:21.6	I've got you. Anxious in a social situation, I'm right here. Available now to pre-order
0:27.5	on ACAS Plus. Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me,
0:34.1	Caroline Forin. This week my guest is Lucy Gernan. She's a career coach, a mindset expert,
0:39.7	and she's working with women in leadership across Ireland and internationally. And we're talking
0:44.1	about workplace anxiety. I have circled around this topic in a few episodes. This time I'm
0:49.7	really honing in with Lucy on some specific questions. So when I give talks to different workplaces
0:55.1	and I talk about how best to understand your own anxiety and how to manage your own time and help
1:00.4	yourself from preventing burnout, a question I get back is always, well, I understand my own anxiety,
1:05.4	but I'm finding it hard to communicate that to my boss or in my workplace. And also, what if you're
1:10.2	dealing with a boss who has no regard for
1:13.3	boundaries and you know wants to work every hour god sends and you're there trying to put in place
1:18.7	your own um scenario so a lot of anxiety can come up in merely just trying to communicate anxiety
1:25.7	and navigate that in the workplace.
1:31.4	So with Lucy, we go through a lot of different scenarios where it's about managing upwards and also if you're a manager trying to communicate your anxiety with your team without wanting
1:37.0	to appear unprofessional. And then there's also conflict across colleagues which we cover as well.
1:41.9	There's a lot in this episode and I hope that you find it helpful. I know I certainly did and for sure workplace anxiety is one of the biggest sources of
1:48.9	anxiety that you guys tell me about. So I was really glad to get this episode done. Thank you for
1:54.6	listening and make sure and follow me over on Owning It podcast on Instagram.
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