#Chill: Turn Off Your Job and Turn On Your Life

Stop stressing and learn to chill with this mindfulness and meditation guidebook that can help workaholics and others let go of anxiety and achieve and maintain the healthy work/life balance they need.

We all know good health and happiness depends on having proper balance between our professional and private lives. But in today’s hectic work environment, in which we must do more in less time with fewer resources, that goal can feel impossible to attain. We stay late at the office rather than being home with our families. We work into the night and on weekends to perfect that presentation or just catch up, rather than relaxing with a hobby or spending time with our friends. Under constant pressure to over-perform, work easily becomes the dominant force in our lives.

Licensed psychotherapist and professor Bryan Robinson understands the demands we face. He also knows that it’s difficult to stop the cycle of over-work. But there is a solution. In #Chill, Robinson explains how ending the cycle of work addiction can be achieved by reframing priorities and cultivating mindfulness in our daily lives. He provides a month-by-month guide with meditations that help center and soothe us, allowing us to step back, close our eyes, take a long breath, and focus on the moment.

Filled with wise advice, inspiring quotes, and gentle guidance, #Chill gives us the tools we need to quiet our anxiety, break our addiction to work, and bring compassion, calm, confidence, and creativity into our daily existence—and at last, have the peaceful, balanced life we all deserve.

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ATTENTION ALL WORKAHOLICS: YOU NEED TO #CHILL!

It’s time to stop cheating on your life. Whether you need to cut down on work, be more mindful, or both, psychotherapist and former workaholic Bryan E. Robinson, Ph.D., will help you integrate work/life balance to find that sweet spot where chilling is possible—and within your power.

The cycle of 24/7 work addiction can be difficult to break, but it’s only a matter of reframing priorities and practicing mindfulness. Chilling is not something you do. It’s a mindset—a way of being in the world. While it’s easy to focus on what’s going wrong, you can save yourself so much time—and stress—by learning how to slow down.

A month-by-month manifesto to tackling overworking, #Chill contains year-long daily meditations, calming practical exercises, the ten commandments of self-care, and professional advice by a leading mindfulness expert. This is the ultimate guide to finding time to relax and live better. So take a #Breath—and #Chill!

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“Bryan Robinson is a leading-edge voice in the world of work addiction recovery. Born from his direct experience, these meditations are chock full of warm and powerful wisdom, guidance, and empathy. This front-line contribution helps us to recognize work addiction’s corrosive effects on health, relationships, and livelihoods and to recover daily with more work/life balance. On a personal level, I am grateful to know that these many glimpses of wisdom are available for all of us who suffer from this quiet and so-called “respectable” addiction and for how I have been helped by Bryan Robinson on my own journey of recovery.” - ALANIS MORISSETTE, singer-songwriter

“Perhaps the biggest challenge to practicing mindfulness is being mindful enough to remember to be mindful.  Bryan Robinson has solved that problem by offering daily tidbits of insight, encouragement, and advice to remind us to focus on what’s important in our busy lives. Reading each day’s reflection is a step toward greater clarity, balance, contentment, and peace.” - MARK R. LEARY, Ph.D.Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University

“The suffering of addiction runs deep and wide in this world; work addiction, in particular, is an important and underestimated one. I’m truly grateful to Bryan Robinson for bringing it to greater awareness.” - TARA BRACH, Ph.D., author of Radical Acceptance

“Only when I, like Bryan Robinson, was forced by one too many episodes of burnout to uncover childhood sadnesses did I begin to see work as an irreplaceable part of my life, but not the whole of my life. And only then did I begin to focus on what I could uniquely do instead of trying to do everything—thus beginning to be far more effective as a worker.” - GLORIA STEINEM, activist/writer

“A motivational book focused on meditations to break the cycle of over-working. Filled with advice, quotes, and meditations, #Chill aims to break

addiction to work and bring a peaceful, balanced work-and-home life...a guide to a restart for the new year.”

- Booklist