Why I fear the lunch room - A Journey of Self-Change --- part 1
I’ve been living this point for a while, of feeling anxious and nervous every time I step into the lunch room at work and/or when I find myself in the presence of males specifically. I’d been ‘working on’ it for a long time, never seemingly getting to a resolution within myself and it wasn’t until I was discussing it with a co-worker who had similar experiences of anxiety related to stepping into the lunch room and being around groups of people that I finally decided I’m going to get to the bottom of this and assist and support myself to change myself and transcend this issue once and for all; to prove to myself that this point does not define me. I did some self-forgiveness and self-corrective statements in writing about it as a preliminary first step toward change. This assisted me with some initial realizations, understandings and a solid starting point for how to change ‘who I am’ in relation to ‘going into the lunch room’ and specifically this experie...