Work Stress and Overthinking: What Changes in Work Anxiety When You Step Back?

Work Stress Anxiety | Burnout Prevention & Work Anxiety Help · Oct 9, 2026 · 15m · transcript

Your mind leaves the meeting, but somehow you don’t. Hours later you’re still hearing the comment, still seeing the expression, still replaying what you said and what you wish you’d said. We’ve been there, and it can turn ordinary workplace stress into full-on work anxiety fast.

We explore a simple idea with big impact: the problem isn’t always that we’re thinking too much, it’s that we’re thinking from one position. When you keep reliving a tense moment from the same mental seat, your interpretation can start to feel like proof. So we borrow a different viewpoint, the “office owl”…