Find helpful resources for supporting mental health at work, including books, blog posts, podcasts, specific podcast episodes, and TED or TEDx Talks.
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Books
Blog Posts
- How to Protect Mental Health While Working From Home?
- How to Handle Workplace Bullying as an Adult?
- How to Stop Overthinking After Work Mistakes
- 15 Ways to Manage Resentment Toward a Coworker
- 20 Ways to Fight Isolation as a Remote Worker
- How to Handle Resentment Toward a Difficult Boss?
- 12 Work-From-Home Boundaries That Keep You Sane
- How to Handle Gossip and Negativity at Work?
- How to Calm Down Quickly After a Stressful Meeting?
- How to Recognize the Early Signs of Workplace Burnout?
- How to Leave Work Stress at the Office and Not Bring It Home?
- How to Handle Work Overload Without Burning Out?
- 7 Quick Calming Tools for Pre-Meeting Nerves
- How to Handle Colleagues Who Don’t Respect Your Boundaries?
- 10 Steps to Recover From Chronic Workplace Stress
- 10 Daily Habits to Protect Your Mental Health at Work
- 9 Steps to Heal After a Toxic Workplace
- How to Protect Mental Health From Workplace Resentment?
Workplace Mental Health Podcasts
- Wellbeing at Work — Workplace Options
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A workplace well-being podcast for employees, managers, and organizations. Episodes explore work-life balance, workplace stress, leadership, employee support, organizational change, and practical ways to make work healthier. - Inner Work World — Rethinking Mental Wellbeing at Work
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Focuses specifically on mental health and well-being in professional life. Episodes combine workplace psychology, expert conversations, and practical ideas for dealing with stress, burnout, performance pressure, and workplace demands.
Specific Workplace Mental Health Podcast Episodes
- Why We’re Burned Out and What to Do About It — Speaking of Psychology
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Burnout researcher Dr. Christina Maslach explains how burnout differs from ordinary tiredness and stress. She discusses exhaustion, cynicism toward work, reduced effectiveness, and why changing working conditions matters rather than putting all the responsibility on individual employees. - Coping With Job Insecurity — Speaking of Psychology
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Dr. Mindy Shoss discusses how worries about layoffs, economic uncertainty, AI, and changes in the workplace can affect mental and physical health. The episode also covers what employers can do to create more supportive environments during uncertain periods. - How Job Loss and Economic Stress Affect Workers and Their Families — Speaking of Psychology
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Dr. Anna Gassman-Pines explains how job loss, unstable schedules, and financial pressure can affect workers as well as their families. It is especially useful for understanding how employment conditions outside a person’s control can affect mental health.
TED & TEDx Talks About Workplace Mental Health
- Talking About Mental Health at Work — Can I Speak to Your Manager? — Mark Bailey
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Mark Bailey shares personal experiences of dealing with mental-health difficulties at work and explains what managers can do when an employee speaks up. The talk emphasizes creating workplaces where people do not feel afraid to ask for help. - Why You Should Talk About Your Anxiety at Work — Adam Whybrew
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Explores why employees often hide anxiety and depression at work and what can happen when mental-health conversations become less shameful. Whybrew argues that appropriate openness can make it easier for colleagues to ask for support when they need it. - Work Is Not Your Family — Gloria Chan Packer
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Challenges workplace cultures that blur professional and personal boundaries. The talk explains how treating work like family can make it harder to set limits and can contribute to burnout, overwork, and unhealthy expectations. - The Cost of Work Stress — and How to Reduce It — Rob Cooke
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Looks at how chronic workplace pressure can affect health, performance, and life outside work. Cooke discusses practical ways individuals and organizations can reduce the impact of work-related stress. - How to Successfully Support Mental Wellness at Work — Matthew Ratz
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Focuses on what meaningful workplace mental-health support actually looks like. Ratz discusses accommodations, workplace culture, and changes organizations can make so employees experiencing mental-health difficulties receive useful support rather than judgment. - 3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work — Alyssa Birnbaum
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Psychologist Alyssa Birnbaum explains how stronger relationships between coworkers can improve engagement and make demanding workplaces easier to handle. She offers research-based strategies for creating more meaningful connection at work. - 4 Relationship Traps That Lead to Burnout — Eric Quintane
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Organizational researcher Eric Quintane examines how workplace relationships themselves can contribute to burnout. He identifies recurring relationship patterns that can drain employees and explains how workplace connection can either increase strain or help protect against it.
