Name: How to turn off work thoughts during your free time
Uploaded: 2019-12-19T21:05:58Z
Duration: 12 min 19 s
Description: Feeling burned out? You may be spending too much time ruminating about your job, says psychologist Guy Winch. Learn how to stop worrying about tomorrow's tasks or stewing over office tensions with three simple techniques aimed at helping you truly relax and recharge after work.

Guy Winch: How to turn off work thoughts during your free time

How to turn off work thoughts during your free time

Feeling burned out? You may be spending too much time ruminating about your job, says psychologist Guy Winch. Learn how to stop worrying about tomorrow's tasks or stewing over office tensions with three simple techniques aimed at helping you truly relax and recharge after work.

Ruminating about work after hours can sabotage well-being, making people feel burned out even when they love their jobs. Research shows that dwelling on unfinished tasks or workplace tensions at home disrupts sleep, harms mood, and eats up precious downtime—sometimes as much as 14 hours a week. Setting strict boundaries, creating rituals to separate work and home life, and converting anxious thoughts into practical problem-solving help reclaim joy both at home and at work. The key to true relaxation lies not in changing jobs, but in changing how the mind processes stress.