Download or read book Workaholics the Respectable Addicts a Family Survival Guide written by Barbara Killinger and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 30,000 sold in Canada. Published in 16 countries. Dr.Barbara Killinger, one of the first voices in the field, has updated her classic, Workaholics. Originally published over a decade ago, Workaholics was one of the very first books to shine a light on the growing problem of workaholism. It is the respectable illness. It is presented as a medal of honour to put in 60 hr weeks, yet much has been learned and indeed the ill effects of this excessive focus on work have become all too clear.(March 2004)
Download or read book Workaholics Anonymous Book of Recovery written by Workaholics Anonymous WSO and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Workaholics Anonymous (WA) Book of Recovery is similar in style to that of the Alcoholics Anonymous "Big Book." It includes WA members' stories of experience, strength and hope, 20 questions to assess the traits of workaholism, a format and instructions for WA meetings, and a review of the 12 Steps of WA. This essential book on work addiction recovery is written by WA members to carry the message of hope to anyone interested in learning about this devastating addiction, and to workaholics who still suffer.
Download or read book Chained to the Desk written by Bryan E. Robinson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on 20/20, The Early Show, and ABC World News Tonight Americans love a hard worker. The man or woman who works eighteen-hour days and eats his or her meals on the run between appointments is usually viewed with a combination of respect and awe. But for many, this lifestyle leads to family problems, a decline in work productivity, and ultimately to physical and mental collapse. Chained to the Desk, best-selling author and widely respected family therapist Bryan E. Robinson’s groundbreaking book, originally published in 1998, was the first comprehensive portrait of the workaholic. Thousands benefited from this innovative book, which profiles the myths behind this greatly misunderstood disorder and the inner psychological battle that work addicts wage against themselves. Intended for anyone touched by what Robinson calls “the best-dressed problem of the twenty-first century,” the author also provides an inside look into the impact on those who live and work with them —partners, spouses, children, and colleagues—as well as the appropriate techniques for clinicians who treat them. In this new and updated edition, Robinson portrays the many different kinds of workaholism, drawing on hundreds of case reports from his own original research and years of clinical practice. From California to the Carolinas, men and women tell of their agonizing bouts with workaholism and the devastations left in its wake, struggles made all the more challenging in a world where the computer, cell phone, and Blackberry allow twenty-four-hour access to the office, even on weekends and from vacation spots. Adult children of workaholics describe their childhood pain and the lifelong legacies they still carry, and the spouses or partners of workaholics reveal the isolation and loneliness of their vacant relationships. Employers and business colleagues discuss the cost to the company when workaholism dominates the workplace. Chained to the Desk both counsels and consoles. It provides a step-by-step guide to help readers spot workaholism, understand it, and recover. Robinson presents strategies for workaholics and their loved ones on how to cope, and for people in the workplace on how to distinguish between work efficiency and workaholism.
Download or read book Retirement for Workaholics written by Morley D. Glicken and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert in retirement issues, aging, and social work shows how workaholics who have been downsized, forced into retirement, or burned out on their current jobs can remain actively engaged in meaningful projects and maintain their happiness. A practical guide for workers who have been downsized or forced to take retirement before they're ready, Retirement for Workaholics: Life after Work in a Downsized Economy explains workaholic behavior, why it develops, and what can be done about it. Rather than taking a negative approach to work addictions, the book provides a sympathetic and logical way of understanding and coping. Organized around research explaining work addictions and the problems workaholics have coping with retirement, the book also includes numerous personal stories from workaholics and case studies of work-addicted individuals. These stories illustrate the effects of work addiction on self, friends, and loved ones, as well as how people have dealt with the overwhelming need to work. More positively, it offers concrete suggestions for dealing with postretirement issues, such as loneliness, boredom, and substance abuse, and for finding satisfaction and fulfillment whether through volunteer activities, a new career, or the pursuit of previously shelved passions.
Download or read book Active Retirement for Affluent Workaholics written by Peter Silton and published by NP Financial Systems. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning Retirement into a Wonderful New LifeThe hot seller by Dorothy Cantor asked the question What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up; this book gives the answers. -- A second chance at life -- Preparation for inevitable change -- Choices based on true pleasure -- Artistic pursuits -- Spirituality -- Travel and adventure -- Mentoring and volunteering -- Hobbies and collecting -- Physical fitness and sports -- Financial and legal concerns -- Estate planning -- Resources for active retirement And much more
Download or read book The Balance Beam for Workaholics written by Arthur Laud and published by Andrew Kasch. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a workaholic, you need to put some balance back in your life, no two ways about it. Without balance, you will likely find yourself lonely, sickly, and bored out of your skull come your golden years (assuming that you survive until then, which is questionable). While a strong work ethic is an admirable thing for most people, workaholics have a tendency to ruin their lives by being unable to stop working when work time is over. In this 13-chapter book, Arthur Laud will help you come to grips with your addiction to work, and get it under control while there is still time. You will come face to face with the root causes of your affliction, and then be walked through a step-by-step procedure which will get you back on track to living a happy, healthy, balanced life.Life is Good for People with Balanced Lives The real irony is that once you start walking the balance beam, every aspect of your life will improve - including your work performance! You probably don't even realize that the best way to be more efficient in your work is to actually get away from it for a while. This book will open your eyes, and offer a very "workable" plan for achieving the balance and satisfaction you are missing.
Download or read book Workaholics written by Barbara Killinger and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her bestselling book, Dr. Barbara Killinger sheds new light on the emotional make-up of the workaholic and offers practical strategies to restore inner balance and gain quality of life
Download or read book The Chocolate Rose written by Laura Florand and published by Laura Florand. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her father’s worst enemy... Top chef Gabriel Delange never forgave his old nemesis Pierre Manon for all the other chef had cost him. One stolen rose... And he most certainly couldn’t stand the sight of his own most famous dessert, the legendary Rose, claimed as Pierre’s own on the cover of his new cookbook. A beast’s substitute victim... But even Gabriel could hardly go through with a lawsuit when he learned the older chef had just had a stroke. Especially not when Pierre had one very cute daughter willing to be Gabriel’s victim instead. A fascinated beauty... As a child, Jolie Manon had seen her family torn apart by her top chef father’s obsession with his work. As a food writer, she might be fascinated with a chef’s work, but she knew how to guard her heart. She would never allow another chef into her life. Unless he blackmailed her into it... Welcome to the heat and sun of Provence, where jasmine and roses climb up old colored walls, where fountains play in ancient stone villages, and where even a beast can prove he is a prince at heart... Praise for Laura Florand and her novels “I adored this story…Paris, chocolate, and romance, all in one hilarious package.” —New York Times best-selling author Eloisa James "Sensuous and sumptuous…a mouth-watering tale of slow-burning passion..." ~ RT Book Reviews Readers will devour this frothy, fun novel.—Booklist
Download or read book Play It Away written by Charlie Hoehn and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you live in constant fear? Shallow breathing, tension in the gut, chest pains, rapid hearbeat... Anxiety destroys your confidence, your productivity, you relationships, your ability to enjoy life. You can put an end to your suffering. You can start living again. And it's not as hard as you think.
Download or read book The Healthy Compulsive written by Gary Trosclair and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Trosclair explores the power of the driven personality and the positive outcomes those with obsessive compulsive personality disorder can achieve through a mindful program of harnessing the skills that can work, and altering those that serve no one. If you were born with a compulsive personality you may become rigid, controlling, and self-righteous. But you also may become productive, energetic, and conscientious. Same disposition, but very different ways of expressing it. What determines the difference? Some of the most successful and happy people in the world are compelled by powerful inner urges that are almost impossible to resist. They’re compulsive. They’re driven. But some people with a driven personality feel compelled by shame or insecurity to use their compulsive energy to prove their worth, and they lose control of the wheel of their own life. They become inflexible and critical perfectionists who need to wield control, and they lose the point of everything they do in the process. A healthy compulsive is one whose energy and talents for achievement are used consciously in the service of passion, love and purpose. An unhealthy compulsive is one whose energy and talents for achievement have been hijacked by fear and its henchman, anger. Both are driven: one by meaning, the other by dread. The Healthy Compulsive: Healing Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder and Taking the Wheel of the Driven Personality, will serve as the ultimate user’s guide for those with a driven personality, including those who have slid into obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD). Unlike OCD, which results in specific symptoms such as repetitive hand-washing and intrusive thoughts, OCPD permeates the entire personality and dramatically affects relationships. It also requires a different approach to healing. Both scientifically informed and practical, The Healthy Compulsive describes how compulsives get off track and outlines a four-step program to help them consciously cultivate the talents and passions that are the truly compelling sources of the driven personality. Drawing from his 25 years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist and Jungian psychoanalyst, and his own personal experience as someone with a driven personality, Trosclair offers understanding, inspiring stories of change, and hope to compulsives and their partners about how to move to the healthy end of the compulsive spectrum.
Download or read book How to Do Nothing written by Jenny Odell and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important … but once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book will change how you see your place in our world.
Download or read book The Book of Serenity written by Workaholics Anonymous World Service Organization and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dear Workaholics written by Kat Nieh and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a workaholic who feels burned out? Do you feel unfulfilled and a little lost? Have you always felt like there has to be more to life than the one you are living today? Are you craving some sort of change, but you're holding on to this book then. Flip the pages open, and start embarking on fun journey to recover from burnout and live the li.
Download or read book The Workaholic s Detox written by Dr. Kara Larson and published by Katherine Larson. This book was released on 2023-12-25 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read for anyone seeking a more fulfilling, efficient lifestyle, "The Workaholic's Detox" is a transformative guide for busy professionals seeking balance with their work obligations. Offering a unique blend of biomedical engineering, project management, and holistic wellness, this book reveals the secrets to balancing productivity with personal wellbeing and intimate relationships. The book explores prioritizing, setting boundaries, effective communication, habit-building, and much more. With insights into mindset's role in personal development, the book emphasizes action over mere knowledge, aiming to shift readers from work-centric habits to balanced living with practical steps for transformation. In this book, you will learn: Understanding Workaholism: Insights into the psychological and emotional aspects of workaholism and its impact on personal and professional life. Setting Boundaries: Strategies for establishing healthy work-life boundaries to improve overall wellbeing and relationships. Effective Communication: Techniques for communicating needs and expectations in the workplace to reduce stress and over-commitment. Building Healthy Habits: Guidance on developing habits that promote a balanced lifestyle, focusing on personal health and happiness. The 60-Day Challenge: A structured program designed to help transition from a work-centered life to one that prioritizes balance and efficiency.
Download or read book You Know You re a Workaholic When written by Jeanne K. Hanson and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift for the 99% of the human race who think that 99% of the human race are completely lazy. Hanson and New Yorker cartoonist Lorenz offer a tribute to those beleaguered people who live for Monday mornings and go to bed with the goal of solving a personnel problem in dreams. Illustrated throughout.
Download or read book Workaholics Anonymous Book of Recovery written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Workaholics Anonymous Book of Recovery includes 20 questions to assess the traits of workaholism, members' stories of experience, strength and hope, a format for WA meetings, and a review of the Twelve Steps of WA. It is published for workaholics by workaholics.
Download or read book Burnout written by Emily Nagoski, PhD and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is a gift! I’ve been practicing their strategies, and it’s a total game changer.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of Dare to Lead “A primer on how to stop letting the world dictate how you live and what we think of ourselves, Burnout is essential reading [and] . . . excels in its intersectionality.”—Bustle This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a roadmap to minimizing stress, managing emotions, and living more joyfully. Burnout. You, like most American women, have probably experienced it. What’s expected of women and what it’s really like to exist as a woman in today’s world are two different things—and we exhaust ourselves trying to close the gap. Sisters Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the all-too-familiar cycle of feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. They compassionately explain the obstacles and societal pressures we face—and how we can fight back. You’ll learn • what you can do to complete the biological stress cycle • how to manage the “monitor” in your brain that regulates the emotion of frustration • how the Bikini Industrial Complex makes it difficult for women to love their bodies—and how to defend yourself against it • why rest, human connection, and befriending your inner critic are keys to recovering from and preventing burnout With the help of eye-opening science, prescriptive advice, and helpful worksheets and exercises, all women will find something transformative in Burnout—and will be empowered to create positive change. A BOOKRIOT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR