How to Change Your Relationship to Work

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When you're a people pleaser or a perfectionist and aren't used to setting any boundaries, that can be a pretty rough formula. "I think work and doing well in work was so tied to my own sense of emotional stability and safety," she says. For many 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."

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