Your Job Is Hijacking Your Life: How to Set Limits, Decrease Work Stress, and Reclaim Your Evenings | Guy Winch
About this episode
Dr. Guy Winch discusses how to manage work stress, set limits, and recharge effectively after work.
Why ruminating after hours is unpaid overtime — plus, how to handle bad bosses, beat the Sunday scaries, and actually recharge. Dr. Guy Winch is an internationally renowned psychologist and bestselling author who advocates for integrating the science of emotional health into our daily lives. His 3 TED Talks have garnered over 35 million views and his science based self-help books have been translated into 30 languages. His newest book is: Mind Over Grind: How to Break Free When Work Hijacks Your Life . In this episode we talk about: Why work stress is at an all-time high — and what the pandemic permanently broke How to tell the difference between regular stress and full-blown burnout Why ruminating about a bad day at the office is unpaid overtime — and how to stop Techniques for coaching yourself through hard moments without lying to yourself How to actually recover after work — and why collapsing on the couch isn't the same as recharging How to set limits with a difficult boss without torching the relationship A practical tool for mapping the real stress in your job What to do with the Sunday scaries — and one scheduling trick that actually works How chronic work stress quietly…
People in this episode
Host: Dan Harris
Guest: Guy Winch
Topics covered
- work stress
- burnout
- emotional health
- setting limits
- recharging
- bad bosses
Keywords
- work stress
- burnout
- emotional health
- bad bosses
- Sunday scaries
- recharging
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: 10% Happier
Books & works: Mind Over Grind: How to Break Free When Work Hijacks Your Life
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