I finally can share some good news. My most challenging client - who fights me every step of the way - called me at home the other day to discuss the details of a project. And during the conversation, he gave me the greatest compliment I think I've ever received at work! He told me I am the smartest person he has worked with in this field, then he said that he loves working with me! That was amazing and made me feel really good!

Then the second piece of good news. We have a work virtual "social hour" every Friday, where the CEO and CMO join us and talk about the week's events. I never speak up in these calls. In fact, my PTSD gets triggered when I have to speak in front of larger groups of people, and my voice can shake. Well, I spoke up and shared a success story about one of my clients. We had had a great call with the client yesterday, and I shared how well they're doing, how we've succeeded in achieving our goals with them, and I was sure to thank various team members for their support and help with pushing through a major project, including my CEO.

My CEO was pretty pleased to hear this, so was my CMO, who is a good friend of the client.

My boss also heard me say this in front of the whole company -- my boss is one who is trying to undermine my success at work. So this was a great feat on my part, because I rose to the task, overcame my fear of public speaking, I shared my success story, and I shared it in front of my boss, who was probably seething. LOL.

Speaking of which, my boss has not had one single positive thing to say about our team in these social meetings since they began. Not one single word of positive reinforcement for anyone on the team -- he's the one who should be sharing our success stories. So I shared instead, and I hope it works in my favor.