10 of the best mental health podcasts to help you fight against professional exhaustion
Whether work, care, emotional overload or trying to keep up with the pace of life, we have sometimes all struck a wall. Fortunately, there are podcasts that can offer real help – not just quick fixes, but the tools, information and compassion you need to recover, recharge and protect your mental health.
Here are 10 of the podcasts I turn to when I need to drop out just bordered.
Rewritten mental health
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A constant cycle of shame can be one of the many reasons to feel professional exhaustion, in particular professional exhaustion. On Rewritten mental healthDominic Lawson is excellent for creating a coherent and scientific story to help you fight against shame with empathy, especially when this shame follows elements of identity such as race and gender. This season of the show hopes to help you rewrite your internal and external dialogues on sex, suicide and cultural identity, from desire to dysfunction. At the very least, it could make you feel less alone and more heard.
10% happier
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The prospect of living consciously can be intimidating, but on 10% happierDan Harris makes it accessible. By emphasizing meditation, neuroscience and emotional balance, this show is a powerful antidote to professional exhaustion. Harris, who was interested in the subject after having experienced his own panic attacks in the air, interviews a wide range of experts, mixing science and personal experience. He is a skeptical, funny and refreshing host, sharing his own difficulties with anxiety, stress and overwork, giving the show a completely relatable and accessible atmosphere. (We can all make tiny changes, right?)
Therapy for black girls
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On Therapy for black girlsDr. Joy Harden Bradford offers accessible and culturally sensitive conversations on mental health, burnout limits and navigation targeting in particular black women – but his advice resonates universally. She interviews experts on subjects such as people who like people, toxic workplaces and personal care strategies. This show will inform you and make you feel treated.
The Laboratory of Happiness
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The Laboratory of HappinessHosted by Yale’s professor of psychology, Dr Laurie Santos, is a deep dive based on science and myth in what makes us really happy – and how modern life often prepares us for professional exhaustion. The show is inspired directly with the very popular Yale course of Dr. Santos “the science of well-being”, which helped millions of people to rethink their approach to stress, work and daily life. Dr. Santos mixes narration with advanced research to approach things like toxic productivity, perfectionism, emotional exhaustion and the way our brains often deceive us in habits that feed professional exhaustion rather than prevent it.
Everything happens with Kate Bowler
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On Everything is happeningKate Bowler brings sincere honesty to difficult conversations on navigation on the most difficult seasons of life, offering a perspective and a grace for those who feel outdated or exhausted. Historian who recently faced his own cancer diagnosis, the bowler excels in exploring the intersections of sorrow, loss and resilience.
Professional life with Adam Grant
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On Professional lifeThe organizational psychologist Adam Grant plunges into what we can do to improve work and less draining. His episodes in toxic workplaces, resilience and the rest productive without professional exhaustion are an essential listening. His expertise helps listeners to reinvent work cultivation and personal habits, and few people can mix academic research with an engaging narration like Adam Can.
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The Ezra Klein show
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While The Ezra Klein show It is not exclusively on professional exhaustion, many of its in -depth interviews approach the cultural, economic and psychological forces that stimulate modern exhaustion. Ezra interviews the best thinkers, from psychologists to sociologists to economists, who help listeners to understand not only how Exhaustion occurs, but Why Our systems often make it inevitable. As a host, Ezra asks thoughtful and compassionate questions that go to the heart of the culture of work, the shortage of attention, rest and pressures of modern life.
We can do difficult things
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On We can do difficult thingsGlennon Doyle, Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle offer honest conversations on borders, feeling overwhelmed and sailing on emotional work. With vulnerability and humor, these three share their own difficulties and insecurity, which means that the show feels like a safe space. The subjects range from the management of professional exhaustion to navigation on the dynamics of exhausting relationships.
Feminist survival project
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Based on their successful book Professional exhaustionon Feminist survival projectThe sisters Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski offer strategies supported by science for women dealing with chronic stress. (Do not miss “versatile 101”, that your nervous system can screw up.) If you are neurodiver and you are looking for a podcast which recognizes the exhaustion of not designed systems so that humans thrive, it is particularly useful; Emily is on the spectrum of autism and is open to her experiences with ADHD. This one is more academic than other programs on the list, but it is strangely the funniest.
The Blindboy podcast
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The Blindboy podcastOrganized by Blindboy of the Rubberbanides, is not strictly on stress, but the conversations and the opening of Blindboy make TheShow looks like a big hug when you are stressed. With a mixture of cultural comments, history, observations and magic narration, Blindboy manages to normalize the process of therapy and the experience of life as an autistic person. In episodes with a free flow that cover everything, Irish and Greek mythology, to what is inside a tennis ball, to a discussion with the late Sinéad O’Connor, he helps listeners to discover something they might need to hear about the world and themselves.
