Working With You is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work

Welcome to My Crazy Office podcast with the authors of Working With You Is Killing Me, Working For You Isn't Working For Me, and Mean Girls At Work, Kathi Elster and Katherine Crowley.

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So I think there's a lot of work, internal work to be done now.

And which of course is not convenient because you also do have to look for a job.

But one of the things I really encourage clients to do when something like this happens is to do things to physically, as we would say in our book, Working With You Is Killing Me, to unhook.

But I

would say physically release the energy that is understandable anger and And fury, you know, and so even if it's as simple as taking a pillow and pounding it on a bed or a couch or taking a tennis racket and smashing balls or going for a run and punching in the air, the things that you need to do to get the energy out are really important because you can easily in this kind of situation turn the energy in and and become depressed rather what's great about anger anger is an activator and so if you can really move it through your system it will help you get to the other side of this where you can take positive you know um actions almost as an advocate for yourself in this new situation

Welcome to My Crazy Office podcast with the authors of Working With You Is Killing Me, Working For You Isn't Working For Me, and Mean Girls At Work, Kathi Elster and Katherine Crowley.

They are committed to creating world peace, one crazy office at a time.

And now, here are Kathy and Katherine.

[upbeat music] Welcome to My Crazy Office Podcast with the authors of Working With You Is Killing Me, Working For You Isn't Working For Me, and Mean Girls At Work, Kathi Elster and Kathryn Crowley.

They are committed to creating world peace, one crazy office at a time.

And now, here are Kathy and Kathryn.

But basically you have...

It's funny.

It sort of relates to the things we write about in Working With You Is Killing Me, in the sense that you, you need to unhook, right?

Mm.

You need to do things physically to calm your system down, mentally to, um, soothe yourself-

Welcome to My Crazy Office podcast with the authors of Working With You Is Killing Me, Working For You Isn't Working For Me, and Mean Girls At Work, Kathi Elster and Katherine Crowley.

They are committed to creating world peace, one crazy office at a time.

And now, here are Kathy and Katherine.