A Workaholic's Cure For Anxiety - How To Play More And Work Less.
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 3 May 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Do you feel guilty or anxious when you're not working?
Have you stopped playing with your friends?
Do all of your daily activities revolve around building a more successful career?
Are you sitting still and staring at screens for most of your waking hours?
Do you interact with people primarily through screens?
Are you always sleeping fewer than eight hours per night?
Are you consuming stimulants multiple times per day to hide your exhaustion?
Are you indoors all day long, depriving yourself of fresh air and sunlight?
Do you depend on alcohol or drugs to cope with social situations outside of work?
My podcast guest today - Charlie Hoehn, author of the book "Play It Away: A Workaholic's Cure For Anxiety"- has been there, and he knows what that lifestyle is like.
Shallow breathing, tension in the gut, chest pains, rapid heartbeat...
...every moment is exhausting, crushing, and painful. Eventually, anxiety destroys your confidence, your productivity, your relationships, and your ability to enjoy life. The worst part is the gnawing sense that you’ll never feel happy again. Fear no more. You can put an end to your suffering. You can start living again. And it’s not as hard as you think...
In today's podcast, we cover Charlie's entire journey: what caused his anxiety, the “A-ha!” moment that led to his cure and how he got his life back. In this episode, you’ll learn:
- The key breakthrough that allowed Charlie to enjoy life again...
- Charlie's step-by-step plan for healing anxiety without drugs...
- How Charlie turned non-stop worrying into background noise...
- Charlie's unusual technique for stopping panic attacks...
- Why “anchors” fuel anxiety, and how to remove them...
- How Charlie finally started sleeping well again...
- Three common nutrient deficiencies that amplify anxiety...
- How to boost productivity and have guilt-free fun...
Click here to get Charlie's fantastic book "Play It Away: A Workaholic's Cure For Anxiety" , and leave your questions, comments and feedback at BenGreenfieldFitness.com. Either Charlie or I promise to respond!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ben Greenfield Fitness.com Podcast. |
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| 0:13.0 | from the top fitness experts in the nation. |
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| 0:30.3 | Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield and I've got a quick story for you. |
| 0:43.2 | A few weeks ago I was actually down in Las Vegas with some of my friends after a Spartan race |
| 0:50.9 | that we did. And after having spent a few hours that morning running around in the desert, |
| 0:57.3 | jumping over obstacles and walls and climbing ropes and doing burpees, getting incredibly |
| 1:03.5 | dirty and then having a beer and going back and lounging pool side, I mentioned how much fun it |
| 1:10.4 | had been that morning to just go out and play. Like we were little boys out running around in the |
| 1:18.4 | desert. And one of the guys who I was out there at the pool with, he said, well, one of my friends |
| 1:26.1 | is actually written a book about this whole concept of turning life into play and turning your |
| 1:32.3 | work into your passion or curing anxiety, playing more working less, just this whole concept of |
| 1:39.2 | playing. And it turns out that this guy has written a book called Play It Away. And I've been |
| 1:49.6 | able to get him on the podcast today thanks to my friend who is down there in Vegas connecting us. |
| 1:56.3 | And so Charlie Hone is his name and I've gotten done reading his book just last week and it really |
| 2:03.6 | is a fantastic resource. And I think that you're going to get a lot out of Charlie's story, |
| 2:09.4 | especially if you're somebody who finds yourself just always thinking about work or feeling guilty |
| 2:15.2 | or anxious when you're not working or having trouble playing with friends or kind of tapping back |
| 2:21.6 | into almost that childhood wonder with being able to play and have fun with life. So Charlie, |
| 2:28.8 | thanks so much for coming on the call, man. Thank you for having me, Ben. I'm excited to do this, |
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