By Rebecca Fraser-Thill

The workaholic is a normal result of toxic work cultures

So many of my coaching clients over the years have been in the sorts of toxic cultures Adam Grant describes below, most often in the tri-state area (greater NYC) area where I grew up and this approach to living is highly normalized. I broke free and moved to Maine 18 years ago, but it has taken many years (decades?) to “detox” from the idea that hustle = worth, that productivity = value, that exhaustion = status.

Unfortunately far too many clients don’t break free because they are *TOO BUSY* to continue the coaching process they began in a moment of desperate clarity (when do intake forms typically come in from clients in toxic work cultures? Between midnight and 3am their time…).

There is a better way to live and work. Worth is within us. Health - of all types - is a necessity. Full living is the only way to live. Not later. Not in retirement. Now.