Psychology for when work is getting to you
Practical, self-paced courses for understanding why work gets under your skin and what you can actually do about it.
Work has a remarkable ability to find all our psychological sore spots.
Anxiety. Overthinking. Difficult people. Confidence. Boundaries. Neurodivergence. Burnout. Old patterns. Workplace politics. The Sunday night oh fuck, I have to go back there tomorrow feeling.
The Worker Bee courses take useful psychological ideas and turn them into practical tools you can use in actual working life.
Not therapy. Not corporate wellness fluff. And definitely not a lesson in how to become better at tolerating a shitty workplace.
The Workplace Anxiety Survival Guide
If work anxiety is taking over, this is where you start.
Maybe you're overthinking every interaction. Re-reading emails before you send them. Worrying you've made a mistake. Dreading conversations with your boss. Taking work home in your head and thinking about it when you'd really rather be doing literally anything else.
The Workplace Anxiety Survival Guide helps you understand why your brain does this, and gives you practical psychological tools for what to do when it does.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
• recognise the patterns that keep work anxiety going
• deal with overthinking, worry and catastrophic thinking
• handle difficult interactions without analysing them for the next three days
• understand why certain workplace situations get to you more than others
• build a toolkit for the days when work is just a bit shit
This is a self-paced educational course. Work through it in your own time, come back to the tools when you need them, and use the bits that are actually useful to you.
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What you won’t find here
I'm not particularly interested in teaching you how to become a more resilient employee for the benefit of your employer.
Sometimes the problem is anxiety. Sometimes it's an old pattern getting activated. Sometimes it's the way you interpret what's happening. Sometimes it's a boundary you haven't set, a conversation you're avoiding, or something about yourself you don't quite understand yet.
And sometimes your workplace is genuinely shit.
Good psychology should help you work out the difference.
That's what these courses are designed to do. Help you understand what's happening, give you practical things to try, and make work a bit less shit without pretending the answer is always to change yourself.
These courses are for you if….
• You spend way too much time thinking about work when you’re not actually at work
• A vague email, weird tone or difficult conversation can send you in to an overthinking spiral
• Difficult bosses, colleagues, feedback or workplace politics get under your skin more than you’d like
• You’re exhausted from trying to work out whether you’re the problem or the workplace is
• You want to understand yourself better and have some practical things to try when work gets you
More Worker Bee stuff is coming
The Workplace Anxiety Survival Guide is just the beginning.
I'm working on more practical resources for the other things that can make work bloody hard, including difficult people, burnout, confidence, boundaries, neurodivergence and all the complicated human stuff that shows up at work.
If you'd like to know when something new lands, join the Worker Bee mailing list below.
No corporate inspiration. No “rise and grind”. Just useful psychology for people who have to work.
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