Welcome to Episode 205 of Live Happy Now.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us today.

Now, if you're having a little trouble with that whole work-life balance thing, you're in the right place.

Today's guest is all about learning how to break the addiction of constant work and change your mindset for lasting results.

Dr. Brian E. Robinson is a licensed psychotherapist, professor emeritus at the University of

North Carolina at Charlotte, and the author of more than 30 books. He's here today to talk to us

about his latest book, hashtag chill, turn off your job and turn on your life. So let's

find out how we can do that. Brian, you have written a lot of books and I wanted to find out

why you chose to use the topic of work for this one. Well, because it's been a personal

communion for me between my work and my personal life and having

struggle with work addiction myself.

And I've actually done research at the University of North Carolina on the effects of

workaholism on families, children, and marriage.

And so I wrote a book called Chain to the Desk for workaholics.

And in my private practice, I realized how many people who come to me have some of these same

traits, but they're not really workaholics, but they're up to their eyeballs and work

or busyness and they're doing.

And they never have time, or they say they never

have time to relax and take it easy. And in fact, some people even tell me they don't even know

how. They can't sit and relax. So I wrote this book called hashtag chill for anybody who's

dealing with the inability to turn it off, the inability to not react in a

negative way when they get frustrated. So hashtag chill is not just passive action where you hang

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