Working in retail helped me overcome my anxiety by pushing me out of my comfort zone, allowed me to grow my confidence, helped me develop …
How Working Retail Helped Me Overcome My Anxiety

An Anxious Girl in A Scary World
A blog about overcoming anxiety disorders
Working in retail helped me overcome my anxiety by pushing me out of my comfort zone, allowed me to grow my confidence, helped me develop …
The hard part is over. I made it through the first interview I’ve had in six years. Yay me! The initial adrenaline rush is gone, …
Woah! It’s been six long years since I’ve had to interview for a job! All I can say is, “wow!” and that my anxiety was …
Sitting down for interviews, which can already be an intimidating thing, can feel even more intimidating when you couple that with an anxiety disorder.
People with high anxiety often experience short-term memory loss because of the excessive elevation in cortisol levels.
Trying to successfully manage your anxiety every day is no small feat. It takes a lot of energy day in and day out, and after a while it can begin to take a toll on you mentally and physically. To help you better manage your anxiety there are a few things that you should stop doing.
Inside our comfort zone is safety and security. It’s calm, quiet, and where we are in control. Although we enjoy staying inside our comfort zone because we are free from disappointments, failures, and mistakes, those things are only a fraction of what we will encounter.
Failure isn’t fatal. It shouldn’t be seen as the end-all be-all. Failure is just another step on the road to success. Some of our greatest lessons are learned through failure, and it aids in our growth and development.
Setbacks don’t mean it’s the end for us, and they don’t negate the progress we’ve made- they are simply a minor delay in progress, a hurdle we must overcome to move us towards our next accomplishment.
We believe that we lack the power to change our circumstances, and instead of actively working towards making the necessary changes or taking the steps to change our situation, we complain about where we are in our lives.