Toxic Productivity

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I interview psychotherapist Israa Nasir about all things toxic productivity: the signs and how to heal from it. We also discuss:

Productivity isn’t about managing time, but rather how you manage your emotions
A radical reimagining of what productivity means
Dynamics that keep us constantly busy, but never satisfied such as; self-worth, shame, social comparison, burnout, and perfectionism
Ways we can focus on “being” rather than “doing” to embrace a healthier and happier lifestyle
Recognizing the emotional patterns that drive our toxic productivity habits
Cultivating a healthier perspective on achievement to understand, manage, and shift our intense emotions
Creating sustainable habits for reaching goals that are authentically meaningful to us

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0:49.9	Mess. We may not call the push towards hustle culture toxic productivity, but maybe we should.
0:58.0	Letting go of a belief that your value is defined by how busy and how successful you are, feels impossible.
1:05.0	Breaking up the hustle culture, urgency and forced productivity isn't easy.
1:10.0	But when of value is connected to external markers, no amount of productivity feels enough.
1:16.7	We don't just need to redefine productivity.
1:19.5	We need to re-examine the relationship it has with our self-worth.
1:23.6	And that is exactly what we're going to discuss today
1:25.8	with my guest, Isred Nasir and New York-based
1:29.7	Psychotherapist writer and the founder of Well- Guide, a digital community for mental health
1:34.1	awareness. So let's dive in and learn and to have you on Doctor's Talks.
1:47.6	I'm very excited to talk to you.
1:49.4	You know you cover a topic that is going to touch everyone's hearts today and that is toxic productivity.
1:54.3	You know we live in that in this era of wearing busyness as a badge and it's just so bad for us and you have a
2:00.5	wonderful book that you've just released that really dives into this topic and I'm excited to dive in with you.
2:06.3	You're a psychotherapist, you're based out of New York, you've just released this book.
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