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| Updated May 10, 2021 Have you noticed yourself speak up less on work calls, doubting most decisions you make and feeling increasingly awkward at social get-togethers? If this sounds all too familiar, you might be in the midst of a pandemic-fuelled confidence crisis. And it’s really no surprise people are feeling this way when you consider what we’ve all been through. “The pandemic has shrunken the size of our comfort zones,” psychologist and author Anna Mathur tells HuffPost UK. “We have gone from living our lives in numerous contexts – the workplace, the home, our high stree...
Life changes can take a toll on your driving confidence Credit: Getty/Franz Marc Frei / LOOK-foto It was 1998 when Sally Hall, then a new mother, was driving to an IKEA in London with her four-month-old baby and her sister in the back seat. It was a route she had taken many times before but this time, on the steep hill of the flyover, she suddenly felt incredibly dizzy as if she might pass out. In hindsight, she says, this was probably due to sleep deprivation as her baby was only sleeping a few hours a night. Her sister tried to calm her down and they opened the windows and pulled over ...