
The Workaholic Syndrome By Barbara Killinger, Ph.D.
Fear of Discovery. Faulty obsessional thinking results in serious errors in judgment, efficiency suffers, and anxious workaholics behavior.
Fear of Discovery. Faulty obsessional thinking results in serious errors in judgment, efficiency suffers, and anxious workaholics behavior.
The difficult part here is breaking the cycle, because you think you cannot just stop overworking, even though you often realize the problems it causes.
How do today’s parents cope when the dreams we had for our children clash with reality? What can we do for our twenty- and even thirty-somethings who can’t seem to grow up? How can we help our depressed, dependent, or addicted adult children?
Introducing an official *unofficial* acronym for BADASS. Since starting my blog, I have found that I pull inspiration from some of the strangest places—one of which is the TV show, The Office.
Do you feel overwhelmed or stretched thin sometimes? Everyone suffers burnout at some point. Keep reading to discover some simple ways to stop it before it gets out of hand.
Burnout is real and it sucks. Does any of this sound familiar…?
“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have is not permanent.” ~Jean Kerr
Here’s the thing no one tells you about dating—it sucks. The uncertainty, the inconsistency, the stress. Dating has always been easy for me. Or so I thought.
“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.” ~Hafiz of Shiraz
“If you learn from a loss you have not lost.” ~Austin O’Malley
Two years ago I lost my grandfather. He’d been ill the last time I saw him and I knew it was coming. And yet, I was still not prepared for the depth of my grief.
“What is the cost of lies? The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all.” ~ Hannah Arendt
What is holding people back from the life that they truly want to live?
I’d say that one very common and destructive thing is that they don’t know how to stop overthinking.
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” ~ Lao Tzu.
Many of us talk about the discrepancy between a photo on social media and reality in relation to loneliness.
It doesn’t matter how you choose to live your life — whether you build a business or work a corporate job; have children or choose not to have children; travel the world or live in the same town all of your life; go to the gym 5 times a week or sit on the couch every night — whatever you do, someone will judge you for it. There will always be haters and difficult people.
I’ve had a lot of sleepless nights. Nights when I was so worried about something that had happened in the past that I let it dictate my future. We’ve all been there at some point. You’re not alone.
Every person in the world has perfectionist tendencies, but only some of us realize it. Fewer still recognize the profound negativity that perfectionism has on our lives.
~ Stephen Guise