work addiction

One type of obsessive-compulsive personality, the Worker-Doer, can experience fulfillment or burnout, depending on how well they balance it with other aspects of the compulsive personality. This episodes contains descriptions of the personality type, strengths and weaknesses, stories about it from myth and legend, and suggestions about how to integrate it with other aspects of the personality. 

Welcome back! Today we talk about workaholism, work addictions and our relationship with work. I talk about my journey as a doctor through my medical career and then work addictions, is anyone addicted to their work in medicine??? 

I've seen a lot of people reach retirement age and have their retirement plans thwarted by illness. Don't let this be you! Here's some practical advice! 


Introduction of the podcast.
0:00

How did you decide to become a doctor?
1:54

What am I doing through medical school?
4:30

The importance of having enough money.
6:30

How do you know if you’re addicted to work?
8:10

The definition of addiction.
10:59

What Is work addiction?
12:49

I think I’m addicted to content.
15:23

Do you want to spend your whole life working or enjoy your life?
17:42

How to think about retirement?
20:42

Thanks for listening :)

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Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, creators of HBO's Industry, on addictions to success, status and money, and the substance abuse that fuels their hit show. In the episode we discuss:

-Why the themes of ambition, success, and money are at the heart of HBOs Industry – and how these themes manifest in various addictions among the characters

-Choosing what we worship, and what happens when we put our faith in external things to make us feel safe, secure, happy, and whole

-Why  recreational drug and alcohol use is so normalized – and how it morphs into more problematic use, especially in high pressure industries

-The individual drivers behind the culture of “success addiction” and “never enough” depicted in the show

-The role of childhood wounds in our self-destructive adult behaviors

-The transactional nature of the sex depicted in the show, and what this says about the characters’ lack of capacity for connection and vulnerability

-Dating apps being the crack cocaine of courtship – and the role of this in an addictive hookup culture

-The motivations for two of the characters getting sober in Season 2, and their different approaches to their sobriety

-The complexity of human nature, and how our “worst selves” often come out when we are feeling vulnerable and afraid

-The role of art in helping us develop self-compassion for our less palatable actions and behaviors

-Two key lines from the show that encapsulate our modern culture of excess 

Seasons One and Two of Industry are streaming now on HBO. You can follow along on Instagram @industryhbo for updates.

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It sounds like a contradiction doesn't it? Yet as we journey with allowing, the eighth key to self-reconnection and sacred balance, that's exactly where we find ourselves. 

We live in a world of action, shoulds and to-do lists; one that will tell us that doing is the only way to be.

But of course we know that's not the case, that the true sense of being is much more flowing; is something that leaves room for rest, for magic, and for someone else to take the reins. 

The key to getting there? Allowing. Allowing ourselves to both take control over what is right for us, and relinquish control over what the next steps look like.

Join Ceryn as she dives into exactly what this means, for us and our world.


Episode notes 

• Are you ready to dive more deeply into your own journey of self-reconnection and sacred balance? There are many ways you can do that, all of which can be found on Ceryn's website.
• Within this week's episode, Ceryn mentions two sets of workshops she is running, specifically:
  • Her Summer Soul Sessions, running weekly throughout August. Learn more about those at cerynrowntree.com/courses.
  • Her Self-Sourcing with Sekhem event with Rachael Morley on 31st July. Click here to read more on this one. 
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• Music is Start Again by Alex Beroza, copyright Alex(2014), sourced through YouTube and available to hear in full here. 
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