Reimagine your experience: Visualise how you’d like your first day, week, month working from the office/workplace to go, including the location and all the detail. When you think about returning to work again, where do you feel it? Nervous, fluttering tummy? Excited, buzzing head? Start noticing, show some kindness to those feelings, and sit with them if you can. Practise mindful moments: The body keeps the score. You just need to get into the right state of mind first.” “I tell all my clients that to make a fundamental change, you need to train your mind to think the thoughts that help you to live how you want to live. Hazel continues: “For example, next time you’re picturing an in-person meeting, instead of surfacing all of your anxiety around it, you’ll be able to focus on the positive elements, such as the fact you’re wearing the velvety red lipstick that you love finally being able to put on your favourite shoes (not your house slippers for once) and reconnecting with your ‘work wife’!” The work sessions use simple, but powerful cognitive hypnotherapy methods, such as visualisation, to help people recognise these so-called ‘threats’ as opportunities and turn feelings of anxiety and nervousness into that of excitement instead because it’s actually easier for the mind to do this than to revert back to a calm state.” The mind naturally seeks out the threat in order to plan for it, so we’re likely to picture our work routines/social life and just focus on all the ‘scary’ stuff it’s the perfect situation for major catastrophizing. “On top of that, most of us associate some level of stress with work and/or socialising, so we’ll be anticipating that again now. Change is fundamentally scary, so heading back to ‘reality’ is naturally unnerving.” Hazel Gale, Clementine’s resident hypnotherapist explains why the sessions are so effective: “We’ve been in lockdown (and almost lockdown) for so long that we’ve normalised this kind of living. Most (73%) said they would like extra support in the workplace, post covid. Of which, a third of survey respondents reported feeling ‘unhappy’ or ‘stressed’ about returning, and over 25% believe that their employer won’t support their mental health during the transition. The Work Therapy content launches at a crucial time when anxiety about returning to the office is at an all-time high and the content has been carefully developed in response to Clementine’s community research*. RE-ENTRY Anxiety’, now part of modern-day vernacular, is the term used to describe the stress related to the fear of being unable to adapt to pre-pandemic routines.Ĭlementine, the Mental Health app for women, which uses cognitive hypnotherapy to reduce stress, anxiety and build the confidence and self-belief of women, has announced the launch of its new Work Therapy several new hypnotherapy sessions and coaching tips, created especially to support and coach women back to the ‘normal’ life and to the workplace after lockdown and the days that follow.
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