Sexual Harassment at Work — Here are 3 Tips You can Use To Conquer It
Mental health, Body Language and Harassment

Ann does not have a stable life at home, she suffers from depression (being medicated), a controlling boyfriend and low self-esteem. She desperately needs to move out of that situation and start fresh, but for that to happen we all know money can be an issue.

My thought was:

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”- Lao Tzu

This way she can have the satisfaction to climb out of that hole and have the pride of having done it herself! However sometimes when we’re at our lowest we tend to attract “garbage” like a magnet!

Body language, I believe had a great impact on Ann’s case. Her state of mind was such that she displayed clear physical signs of being nervous, which in turn sabotaged her best intentions:

Fidgetiness,

Repeated gestures like touching her face and hair

“Smallness” postures, like slouching and hunching over her shoulders

To an empathetic human being, those types of visual cues signal a person’s discomfort and alert them to the need of making the other person feel welcomed.

“I tried to ignore the comments, and stay away from their gaze but no matter where I went their eyes would follow me” — Ann

To a malicious intentioned person that could trigger the opposite reaction — they may see the other has an easy target.
['Vera Allen']
['Woman', 'Work', 'Life Lessons', 'Whistleblower', 'Sexual Harassment']