Work is not your family | Gloria Chan Packer

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🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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You may need to hear this (if you haven't already): your job is not your family. While you can develop meaningful relationships with your colleagues, calling work your family can actually breed burnout and be detrimental to your mental and emotional health. Mental wellness educator Gloria Chan Packer walks through the exercises you need to shift your perspective and redraw the boundaries between your work and personal life, so you can feel freer and more empowered. Join Modupe after the talk, as she shares how to practically set boundaries in your own life.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.0	In 2016, I had an existential crisis.
0:10.7	I remember wondering, what am I excited about?
0:14.2	And feeling like the answer was nothing.
0:16.8	I had a good job, a good family life.
0:20.3	I was in good health, but I didn't feel like I was looking forward to anything.
0:25.0	I felt depleted emotionally.
0:28.1	Clearly, something needed to change.
0:30.8	And guess what I discovered?
0:32.6	A week-long residential program whose tagline was, when you're serious about change.
0:39.6	I kid you not.
0:41.0	It's called the Hoffman Institute.
0:43.4	And I went.
0:44.7	Essentially, this place takes type A people in situations like mine through a process
0:50.7	that helps you reset and understand what has led you to feel depleted, unenthusiastic,
0:56.9	like whatever to everything.
0:59.8	I mean, I went to some deep, dark places with the understanding that going there would
1:05.6	help me get unstuck.
1:08.4	It was really life-changing.
1:10.8	And one of the most important lessons I took away from this experience was having boundaries.
1:18.5	Understanding how different aspects of my work environment and my personal life overlapped
1:23.6	in an unhealthy way.
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