Mental Strength: Showing Up at Work When Life Falls Apart with Amy Morin
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I'm your host, Eric Fisher. My guest today is Amy Morin, a psychotherapist who about a year into her career lost her mother. But then three years to the day later, she lost her twenty-six year old husband to a heart attack. So she had a few days of bereavement leave. Then a stack of her own clients waiting on her, bills to pay. So she sat back down in the therapist chair and helped other people rebuild their lives while hers
Was in pieces. The tool she used then turned into an article. Then A best selling book. And then the newest one, the Mental Strength Playbook, Fifty Tools to Cope with Stress, Thrive Under Pressure.
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