Naomi Shragai Work Therapy: Or The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life

Is 2023 the year you want to change your working life? Perhaps you want to stop catastrophising about small mistakes, instil a better job/life balance or find new mechanisms to cope with a nightmare boss. Solutions to these problems, as well as an array of other office issues, are what Naomi Shragai offers in Work Therapy. If youre searching for a new way to handle office politics, you could well find the answers in this book. Sunday TimesTheres no place like home...or work?You probably dont realise this, but every working day you replay and reenact conflicts, dynamics and relationships from your past. Whether its confusing an authority figure with a parent avoiding conflict because of past squabbles with siblings or suffering from imposter syndrome because of the way your family responded to success, when it comes to work we are all trapped in our own upbringings and the patterns of behaviour we learned while growing up. Many of us spend eighteen formative years or more living with family and building our personality but most of us also spend fifty years or 90,000 hours in the workplace. With the pull of the familial so strong, we unconsciously reenact our personal past in our professional present even when it holds us back. Through intimate stories, fascinating insights and provocative questions, business psychotherapist Naomi Shragai will transform how you think about yourself and your working life. Based on thirty years of expertise and practice, Shragaiwill show... | Naomi Shragai Work Therapy: Or The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life