Anxiety has increased since 2022: How to make friends with it

This article was originally published on Quartz and is excerpted below. How to make friends with Anxiety

By Anna Oakes

Quartz: How To Make Friends With Your Anxiety

“I wanted to be a workplace therapist. In fact, I studied social work because I thought work was so broken. I kept thinking, Why are people always so shitty at work?”

Morra Aarons-Mele knows how to touch a chord—maybe even more so when she talks about her own way of being in the workplace.”

“This was the pre-mentorship era, when it was just sink or swim. So I learned that I had to work differently,” said Aarons-Mele. “I had to work flexibly because of my anxiety. Because I’m an introvert. Because I also get depressed.”

While consulting, Aarons-Mele had clues she was onto something. People’s eyes widened when she spoke about anxiety and how it impacted their work. After the launch of her Anxious Achiever podcast in 2018, her flooded inbox showed her people were hungry for more. Enter Morra Aarons-Mele’s new book: The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower.

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