The ObservatoryPetra and the second week
Returning to work at your own pace, not at the old one.
Petra had been away for fourteen weeks. Medical certificates, conversations with occupational health, a rehab plan in a binder she had barely managed to read all the way through. None of it crossed her mind on the first morning back. She only thought that the lift to the office felt exactly as it always had, and that the coffee machine sounded the same. Everything was so unremarkably ordinary that it felt wrong — as if the office should have noticed she had been gone as long as she had.
Somewhere during those fourteen weeks she had decided that this time it would be different. No one would have reason to wonder in silence whether she was really ready, whether she could 'handle it'. So on the first day she took every meeting she had missed, answered every email that had piled up to two hundred, and went home at six, just as before, as if nothing had ever happened.
That's the beginning. The rest of the story is part of Premium — try it free for 7 days, with no card.
The rest of the text and the exercise are part of Premium. You try everything for 7 days with no card, and can cancel whenever you like. Sign in if you already have an account.
Account, your first assessment with the hexagon and one new measurement every quarter are free. The rest is part of Premium: SEK 99 a month or SEK 699 a year, VAT included.
Read more
The grip of uncertainty
Separate what you can influence from what you cannot, and carry the rest a little more lightly
Exercise11 minMoney and worry
An exercise about handling the feeling money stirs up, not about what to do with it.
Session4 minJust before
A few minutes of calm and self-compassion to gather yourself right before something difficult, a presentation, an exam, a conversation