How do you all handle the ‘Sunday scaries’ — and have you found any workplace practices that actually help reduce that end-of-weekend anxiety for employees?

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I try to get my house in order. Starting the week with no chores to do or errands to run is a great feeling. It allows me to just focus on work, which makes the transition a lot easier to handle.

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Yes a clean slate can be the best start, clear space clear mind!

I schedule three hours at the end of my Friday to wrap up anything that needs to be wrapped up. So much of my anxiety on the weekends was because I left so many Friday tasks for Monday and so Monday felt twice as long. Now that I have some administrative time baked into my Friday routine, I no longer have anxiety on Sunday and in fact look forward to a clean Monday slate.

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Yeah that’s a good idea, helps yourself out in the long run.

I get them every Sunday too. It helps me fight those feelings by spending the day getting everything ready for the week. I make sure to wash my sheets, meal prep, and handle other tasks. It really puts me more at ease going into Monday.

Yes the little things help a lot don’t it, clean and fresh space is a clear mind.

Found a better job that doesn’t give me the Sunday scaries 😆 but for real, when I had the Sunday scaries I should have invested more time in physical activity and spending the whole weekend without my work phone/laptop, and cleaning my place. I had anxiety on the weekends so much due to work that I’d just sleep all weekend. I should have made my space clean because when you do that, my anxiety is instantly reduced. Do self care, light candles, read a book on Sunday night - anything to help you take care of yourself before we give ourselves to work for the week.

Yes definitely, your job itself can be a main factor but there’s so many thing you can do outside of that can help you out😁

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