How Work Stress Hijacks Your Life with Dr. Guy Winch

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Dr. Guy Winch discusses how job stress affects our lives beyond the workplace.

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Guy Winch, bestselling author and psychologist, joins Joe to discuss his newest book, Mind Over Grind to explore how job stress quietly spills beyond the office—and into our evenings, our sleep, and our relationships. What starts as a difficult meeting or looming deadline doesn’t end at 1700. It follows us home. From the “Sunday Scaries” to 2AM rumination loops, Guy explains how modern work keeps us stuck in fight-or-flight—and why we’re often blind to the ways we sa...

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Host: Joe Byerly

Guest: Dr. Guy Winch

Topics covered

• work stress
• mental health
• relationships
• productivity
• psychology

Keywords

• work stress
• mental health
• job stress
• relationships
• psychology
• Mind Over Grind
• Sunday Scaries

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Books & works: Mind Over Grind

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