The Weight We Carry: Authenticity and Mental Wellbeing in Corporate Life
4/23/20263 min
Mental health neglect emerges as the most impactful career mistake, affecting happiness, security, and stability in both personal and professional realms. Many people recognise mental health issues too late, silently carrying burdens that significantly impact their relationships and performance.
Authentic Alex shares her story.
• Tendency to ignore mental health concerns until they become impossible to dismiss
• Personal anecdote about a friend struggling silently despite having a busy career
• Started writing about therapy experiences seven years ago, and grief on LinkedIn five years ago
• Corporate conversations about mental health have transformed dramatically in recent years
• Current global circumstances continue to place extraordinary pressure on people's mental health
• Many remain unaware of the burdens they're carrying and that they have the option to set them down
• COVID-19 intensified universal experiences of grief and mental health challenges
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First 90 secondsChris Norton· Host0:00
What's the one mistake that you've learned the most from in your career, would you say?
Alex· Guest0:03
Probably something around, well, naturally authenticity, but also something about not looking after my mental health or not being aware of the importance of that and what a big part that plays in my happiness, my joy, my satisfaction, my kind of sense of security and stability in, in life and work. I think it happens to so many people, and I think we catch it really late. We have a tendency of ignoring that it's there. I literally had a conversation last night with a very good friend of mine and, you know, he was sharing that, you know, he's not been in a good place for a long time, and he's not told anyone. And, um, he's got ... You know, he has an incredibly busy career, and it just ... It has such a massive- Mm ... impact on our lives and on our families and our friendships and relationships. And I think I'm so happy that when I began talking about this seven years ago, I started writing things about what I was learning in therapy, and I started writing about, a- about five years ago, I started writing about grief on LinkedIn. And that was back then where there was barely any of those kind of conversations 'cause societally, and especially in the corporate world, we weren't talking about that at all.