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Advice from a recovering workaholic: break free

How to achieve that hard-to-hit goal of work/life balance? NPR's A Martinez asks Bryan Robinson, author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World.
Bryan Robinson, author of <em>Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World. </em>

When work is all consuming, it can exact a high price. This is not news to anyone who has grown up with work-obsessed parents or who loves their job so much that its become part of who they are.

It's a familiar topic for Bryan E. Robinson, a psychotherapist in Ashville, N.C. He's been writing about work-life balance for more than twenty years, and has updated his guidance in an aptly-titled book, Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World.

As a college professor,

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