Social Hurricane Changes Shifts

Social Hurricane once upon a time was my people person.  Wasn't scared of anything or anybody, made friends easily, eager for adventures and activity.

She still enjoys people, and she still loves doing stuff.  But it has to be people she knows and situations she's familiar with, or the anxiety kicks in.

It's tough when you're less confident as a young adult than you were as ten year old.  To her considerable credit, she KNOWS she struggles with anxiety and she tries to combat it.  But it makes it very difficult to put herself into something new.

She's changing shifts at work, from third to first.  Most of the people she'll be working with she already knows, and, while the work responsibilities will change, they won't be substantially different than what she's already doing.

And she's going over and over these very same points in her head.  "I know these people."  "I know this place."  "I know how to do this job."  She knows the anxiety is irrational--she has nothing to worry about.

But she's as nervous about it as if she were moving to a different continent.  She keeps going over how she's going to handle things on the new shift.  And over, and over, and over.

(She'd driving me a little nuts, to be honest with you.  Anxiety is contagious.)

I'll be very happy when she's got a couple of days under her belt.  And so will she.

Hope all's well out there, friends, and God bless.