Stressed about returning to in-person work? Experts offer tips on how to make the transition easier

Ahmad. “When you have a routine that you’ve prepared in advance, you’re working on executing and putting your energy towards that.”

“We talk about it as a 90 per cent rule: set a goal that you are 90 per cent sure that you can achieve and then work your way up from that,” Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley, a registered clinical psychologist in Nova Scotia, told CTVNews.ca. “Pick things that feel doable, feel manageable, that you have enough frontal lobe battery to stick to and then add to that over time.”

“Start with what you’re already most familiar with and build it in --write it down, submit to it, maybe put it in your Google calendar,” says Ahmad. “Be very specific about your routine, like what time and what you’re going to do. Then you can execute that.” Being prepared not only helps people stick to schedules but ease the stress and anxiety associated with the uncertainty of change.“We can gain a sense of control and agency when we have more information,” says Ahmad. “It’s important to find out and reach out to your company, your workplace, if they haven’t already reached out and initiated to you, to tell you what the back-to-work expectations are at this time.

“...Think about things that are important to you as a person, like maybe it’s about being a high performing person or a more compassionate spouse or partner or a better friend or a more engaged parent,” says Lee-Baggley. “Get some higher order value that we often find motivating. These things are going to create some discomfort and sometimes some distress, so you want to have a really good reason for doing it. Create the carrot rather than using a stick.

“COVID has been hard for everybody,” says Ahmad. “It’s taken quite a toll. In the whole population the reports of levels of anxiety and depression have gone up. Some people underestimate how much COVID has impacted them emotionally. Taking care of yourself mentally is very important.”

Good lord. What's wrong with this generation? Whatever happened to, 'Don't sweat the small stuff...And it's all small stuff'?

Do these people know there’s been others that haven’t stopped working? What do they think we’ve all been doing?

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