COPING WITH CHANGE
If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies. —Author unknown
Do you suffer from metathesiophobia? Never heard the word? Turns out that metathesiophobia is the fear of making changes. The origin of the word ‘meta’ is Greek, meaning ‘after’ and ‘change.’ ‘Thes’ is Latin for ‘setting’ and phobia is Greek for ‘fear.’
Mostly, we take the changes that happen in our stride – changing the clocks in autumn and spring, the changes in the weather, the time a favourite TV programme is scheduled or your team is playing, a change in the menu at a favourite restaurant or a change in where the milk is stocked in your local shop.
But facing a more serious change – a major staff reshuffle or changes in procedures at work, redundancy, ...
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