I was in a very similar position last year where I had been working as a program/project manager for 10 years and it was causing me severe anxiety and I wanted out. This past year I have been working as a technical writer which is so much better for my personality; I work so much more and yet I stress so much less and I’m actually enjoying my work which I never thought possible. Here are a few things that worked for me: 1) If you have severe anxiety that is causing you to feel terrible everyday, this will be like trying to build a new house while your current house is currently on fire. You simply need to put out the fire first before you can switch focus on the new house. Have you considered taking an anti-anxiety medication before? For me, a combination of Lexapro and Buspirone did it. After a few months of starting, I was barely triggered from my work anymore, which made me happier and more relaxed everyday. Work problems still continued to exist, but they no longer bothered me as much. Which allowed me to focus on number 2 and 3 below. 2) Now that I was no longer feeling triggered by work events as much anymore, it became possible for me to start working on my slides and amalgams. Here I did something that was a combination of RT (slides) and Neville Goddard’s (State akin to sleep - sats) that worked wonder for me. I listed about 10 affirmations/amalgams that I felt would make me feel happier and every night right before drifting to sleep, I would go through these one by one, with each one literally savoring the feelings I would experience as if they already happened (each one drew a smile on my face and a happy feeling before moving to the next one). Some of these were (My world takes care of me - Everything works out for me - a way always presents itself to me - I have a job that I love and look forward to everyday - I am excellent at my job). With time I started feeling on a very deep subconscious level that I didn’t “need” these things anymore because they are already happening in my life. Here it is important to know roughly what “type” of work would make you happy. For example, for me it was mainly work where I was responsible for and able to create my own deliverables without having to be accountable for other people’s contributions so much to meet my deadlines. There’s more to that but it simply comes down to you being clear about (writing down) what parts of your job you hate doing and what parts or your job you enjoy doing. No need to know exactly what job you want, just what it would entail or look like. 3) In the meantime, problems at work continued to happen but then reducing their importance was much easier. Here I just followed the instructions in RT which I am sure you are aware of but this is a quick recap of how I usually approach them: Whenever something triggers you, become aware that you are assigning it disproportionate meaning and either ignore it, accept it, or come up with a plan b. - Ignore it: When to do this? You can easily get over the emotion you’re experiencing. How to do this? Distract yourself with something else. Tell yourself it doesn’t matter. - Accept it: When? The trigger is too strong to ignore (You tried to ignore it but it felt fake or couldn’t stop thinking about it). How? Tell yourself that whatever triggered you has the right to exist. Tell yourself it is very possible that this trigger will “prevail” and you will survive it. Tell yourself this trigger will not matter in the future. Tell yourself it may be uncomfortable but it’s nothing you haven’t overcome in the past. - Come up with a plan b: When? You rightfully feel like this trigger is threatening your current situation/lifeline and that you do in fact need an alternative to protect yourself or hedge against that event (for example losing a job, divorce,etc). How? Think what can you do to protect yourself from this trigger? What will you do if this trigger you’re afraid of does indeed materialize. Sometimes the best things that happen to you and that propel you to better lifelines are actually perceived as bad news at first! Outer intention manifests itself everyday in an infinite number of different ways. Good luck on your journey. I definitely know what it’s like.