Yesterday was an emotionally stressful day.

Actually, scratch that.

This whole week has been an emotionally stressful week.

There came a time yesterday, when I was sitting in my home office chair, staring blankly at the computer monitor and found myself shaking violently. So maybe a better way to put it would be that yesterday was the peak of what has been (and will continue to be) an emotionally wracking week.

Yesterday, the organization that I have worked for since before my kids were born, announced “large scale workforce reductions caused by evolving business conditions”. Minus the corporate speak, they let a whole bunch of people go.

To be fair to everyone, this wasn't a shock and awe situation. This wasn't even the first time in my career here that this has happened. Also, we were told this announcement was coming. We were told when it would be announced. We just didn't know who would be impacted. Hence the uncertainty which led to anxiety. Bone rattling anxiety.

The past few we…