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• #CHILL Is SIBA’s first Book Club Read for 2019

  

  I’m thrilled to share the news that #CHILL has been chosen as SIBA’s first Book Club Read for 2019! SIBA selected #CHILL because they’ve heard from many of their booksellers that this is a must-read, especially for busy bookstore owners.

From My Blog

• February 24, 2019

  Do You “Musturbate” or “Should” on Yourself?

  

  Musturbation was coined by the late Albert Ellis, who developed REBT.

  If you suffer from this malady, you have a relentless voice that lives in your brain, ruling your mind and life, bludgeoning you with oppressive words such as must, should, ought, and have to: “I must win that contract”; “I have to get that promotion”; “I should be a better person”; “People must do as I say”; “Others must see my point of view”; “I should have done better on that project”; “Life must be easier than this.”

  Read my full post on Psychology Today’s website.

Recent Media Appearances

• February 3, 2019

  #Chill Featured on Good Morning America

  

  My new book #CHILL: Turn Off Your Job and Turn On Your Life was featured on Good Morning America on January 24, 2019. In the segment, I discuss how mindfulness is key to breaking work addiction. Read the full story on the GMA website here.

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  Chained to the Desk

  A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them

  Thousands have benefited from best-selling author and widely respected family therapist Bryan Robinson’s groundbreaking book. This innovative volume 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. He provides a step-by-step guide to help readers spot workaholism, understand it, and recover, and presents strategies for people in the workplace on how to distinguish between work efficiency and workaholism.

  Praise for Chained to the Desk:

  “Robinson approaches workaholism with pragmatic and effective strategies designed to overcome the resistance with which most workaholics greet attempts to change them. This is the first book I know of to look closely at the effect of workaholism on family members and children, the people who often feel most strongly its effects.”

  John Bradshaw, author of Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child

  “This useful, well-turned guide will serve therapists and the many people affected by the disease equally well.”

  Publishers Weekly

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