Overworking. Endless scrolling. A drink to take the edge off. The things we reach for when burnout sets in start as survival and do not always stay that way.

Chris Wilson sits down again with resilience coach and addiction counsellor Alina Meyer-Riad to look at coping mechanisms honestly. Alina explains why these patterns tend to stay hidden at work and surface hardest at home, where the line sits between a coping tool and a dependency, and what the early part of breaking the cycle actually involves. Nothing dramatic, and nothing that requires hitting a bottom first.

• Why the coping stays invisible at work and comes out at home
• How a tool that helps tips over into something that holds you back
• The small honest steps that start to interrupt the pattern

Season 2, Episode 5

Content note: this episode discusses addiction and dependency.

Connect with Alina Meyer-Riad: https://www.amr-resilienz-staerken.de/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/amrresilienzstaerken/

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