E62: Work and Play Series Ep 6. Play Like you Mean it

Play Like You Mean It: A Practical Plan to Restore Your Nervous System In episode six of Mona’s Work and Play series on Burnout Solutions, she digs deeper into Charlie Hoehn’s book Play It Away and how restoring play helped him resolve burnout and anxiety after relentless overwork. Mona describes how anxiety can show up in the body, why common wellness tools may help only marginally if play has been evacuated from life, and how play and movement can help the nervous system return to a more connected, regulated state. She introduces “stress anchors” (the persistent worries that keep fight-or-flight humming) and a simple method for identifying and reducing them. Mona also walks through Stuart Brown’s play personalities (like joker, kinesthete, explorer, competitor, director, collector, and creator) and closes with a gentle four-week play plan and a small weekly challenge to start scheduling purposeful play. 00:00 Play Like You Mean It 01:47 Series Recap And Focus 02:30 Meet Charlie Hoehn 03:43 Burnout Anxiety Symptoms 05:15 Why Wellness Wasnt Enough 06:40 Play Restores Safety 08:28 Stress Anchors Explained 10:29 List Reduce Delegates 13:30 How Adults Play 14:02 Find Your Play Personality 15:28 Joker And Kinesthete 17:04 Explorer And Competitor 18:39 Director Collector Creator 22:13 Build Your Play Plan 22:51 Four Week Play Protocol 26:05 Tiny Play Counts 26:42 Weekly Challenge And Wrap To to find out more about how I can help your workplace or work with me one on one, please see www.monatippets.com Want to understand your stress a little better? Get my free Stress Management Guide for High Achievers here. (https://via.growseamlessly.com/widget...)