"Work was kind of the center, if you will, of my day to day and of my safety," she says. "I think work and doing well in work was so tied to my own sense of emotional stability and safety that not being able to have that just had me feeling completely lost and completely powerless" For many people who don't have tools or education around mental health,. we don't have any other sense of self-worth besides what we do for a living."
On this bonus episode from our friends at the How To Be A Better Human podcast: For some of us it’s easy to lose ourselves in our work. But a lack of boundaries between your personal and work life is something mental wellness educator Gloria Chan Packer would warn you twice about. Gloria speaks about the perils of gaining your sense of self-worth from your job, discusses her experience with burnout and stress and shares empowering insights on how to shift our perspectives to create – and maintain – a healthy distance. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts
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