Career Coaching: Having a Rocky Time at Work?

Career Coaching: Having a Rocky Time at Work? Are you? Seems like most people are! I’ve got friends, Connections, acquaintances, recommendations popping in through every channel right now! It’s quite bewildering, although it is also a privilege.

And where are they at when they get to their first session? Quite frankly, most of them fear they have gone a bit insane…. There is anxiety, panic attacks, sleeping difficulties, fear that they ‘can’t do this anymore….’ and this from THE most competent and brilliant people.

My first job is to remind these good people that they are having ‘a sane response to insane circumstances’ and thus they are not insane at all!

Our bizarre circumstances: job dissatisfaction, core values conflicts, remote working, and lack of human contact would be enough to trigger anyone.

Site those things in the bigger picture: the economic impact of Brexit on the business community and then again inside a global pandemic that continues….

And would anyone not feel a bit stressed? We have been in fight or flight for so long it has become our normal. And, the chemicals flying around our minds and bodies ate having a profound effect on our psyches and our wellbeing.

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So, first of all, remind yourself that whatever you are feeling… it’s normal. YOU are normal. You are also not alone!

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