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• Bookseller Chill: A Six-Week Series on Coping with Anxiety during COVID-19

  Bookseller Chill with Bryan Robinson, Ph.D. is a six-week series beginning March 26 at 2 PM EST and continuing each Thursday, same time, same zoom link, till April 30. Each session will last approximately 30 minutes and include concepts from Bryan’s book: #Chill: Turn Off Your Job and Turn On Your Life, followed by what Bryan calls simple, short “MicroChiller” meditations that will help us relax and restore during this time of great uncertainty. You can read Bryan’s recent post at Forbes.com.

  Today’s events are creating anxiety that challenges our resilience and ability to act, make good decisions, even sleep. This series provides tools to cope, and a window of time to share with your colleagues as you experience guided meditations and counsel. Come to as few or as many sessions as you like, and please bring your staff. RSVP lindamarie@sibaweb.com to attend. These sessions will be recorded for later viewing.

  Learn more here.

From My Blog

• March 22, 2020

  Beginning Meditation Steps for the Quarantined

  

  Five minutes of meditation during social distancing can offset stress.

  During the era of the COVID-19 pandemic along with all the changes such as social distancing, anxiety is on the rise for many people. With social distancing, this is a great time to turn inward and practice mindfulness meditation to offset fear and panic. According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, meditation has many mental and physical health benefits such as stress relief, lower blood pressure, and boosts in immune system.

  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.

Featured Book

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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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