Mental Strength: Showing Up at Work When Life Falls Apart with Amy Morin

Mental strength isn't toughness. Psychotherapist Amy Morin makes the case that it's what gets you through stress, burnout, and the hard seasons when you still have to show up for work.

Amy Morin is a psychotherapist and the bestselling author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do, with more than a million books sold and a TEDx talk past 25 million views. About a year into her career she lost her mother, and three years later to the day she lost her husband, then went back to sitting across from her own clients. The tools that got her through became her new book, The Mental Strength Playbook: 50 Tools to Cope with Stress, Thrive Under Pressure, and Gain a Competitive Edge in the Workplace.

In this conversation, we cover:

• Strength vs. toughness: Why pushing through and shoving everything down backfires, and how mental strength works across what you think, feel, and do.
• Act as if, not fake it: The night before her first big stage, and why acting like your most confident self is different from pretending to be someone else.
• Naming your inner critic: Meet Fretting Phyllis, plus getting the noise out of your head and onto paper (and into the trash).
• Emotions at work: Why a bad mood makes for a bad negotiation, the "smell the pizza" breathing exercise, and scheduling time to worry so worry stops scheduling you.
• High performers vs. strategic contributors: The tension in a book that promises a competitive edge while talking you out of the grind, and how to reset boundaries that have quietly eroded.

If you're carrying something heavy and still have to walk into Tuesday's meeting, this one's for you. Amy closes with one question to ask at the end of each day, which is as good a place to start as any. Find The Mental Strength Playbook wherever books are sold.

Connect with Amy:

• Website
• The Mental Strength Playbook
• Free reference guide to all 50 plays
• Mentally Stronger with Therapist Amy Morin
• Instagram
• LinkedIn

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