I recommend using my Brutal-AI-Mod, which you can get here:
https://github.com/Xilmi/OpenXcom/releasesand setting the difficulty to Superhuman.
Obviously not because that would make the game easier but because after playing for a while with that, you will perceive the base-game on beginner-difficulty as a lot easier in comparison.
It would basically be a way to re-calibrate your perception of what is difficult and what is not. Similarly to how you can overcome the addiction of highly processed food with lots of salt, fat and sugar by eating just vegetables for a while so that even fruit will be perceived as delicious.
If you want to learn more about the biological backgrounds of the perceptual re-calibration, you can check out "The pleasure trap" by Doug Lisle.