#68 — Workplace Anxiety: Stop Suppressing It. Start Using It.

What if your anxiety at work isn't a flaw to fix — but information you've learned to ignore?

Most introverted professionals have spent years trying to suppress, manage around, or hide their anxiety in professional settings. The result: the energy drain gets worse, not better — because avoiding anxiety costs more than the anxiety itself.

Dr. David Rosmarin is a psychologist at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School faculty member, and the author of Thriving with Anxiety: 9 Tools to Make Your Anxiety Work for You. His research shows that your relationship with anxiety matters far more than how much of it you feel. And for introverted leaders — who tend to process more deeply and feel more acutely in high-pressure moments — that reframe changes everything.

In this episode you'll:

• Understand why the standard advice to "manage your anxiety" often backfires — and what the research says actually works instead
• Identify whether your anxiety is signaling something genuinely important or simply a habit loop your nervous system has gotten stuck in
• Use a practical, evidence-based toolkit to make your anxiety work for you at work — not against you

If you've ever walked into a meeting feeling your nervous system spike, or spent the hour before a high-stakes conversation burning energy you didn't have — this episode will change how you see that experience.

Hit play and listen now.

• Thriving with Anxiety: 9 Tools to Make Your Anxiety Work for You
• David's Website
• McLean Hospital Bio
• LinkedIn

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