Guy Winch: How Can We Maintain Healthy Boundaries Between Our Work And Personal Time?

VPM | By Manoush Zomorodi, Katie Monteleone and Sanaz Meshkinpour

Published April 9, 2021 at 1:10 PM EDT

Updated April 19, 2024

Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode Revitalize

Many of us are feeling weary and exhausted all the time. Psychologist Guy Winch shares ways we can both prevent and recover from the all-too-common experience of burnout.

About Guy Winch

Guy Winch is a licensed psychologist whose practice focuses on improving his patients’ everyday mental health. He has written several books on emotional well-being, including Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts.

In 2020, Winch also partnered with TED to launch Dear Guy, a science-based advice column for the TED Ideas blog. He co-hosts the Dear Therapists podcast with TED speaker Lori Gottlieb.

Winch received his M.A. in Psychology and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from New York University.

This segment of TED Radio Hour was produced by Katie Monteleone and edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour. You can follow us on Facebook @TEDRadioHour and email us at [email protected].

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Manoush Zomorodi

Manoush Zomorodi is the host of TED Radio Hour. She is a journalist, podcaster and media entrepreneur, and her work reflects her passion for investigating how technology and business are transforming humanity.

Zomorodi is a co-founder of Stable Genius Productions and is the co-host and co-creator of ZigZag, the business podcast about being human. She also created, hosted, and was managing editor of the podcast Note to Self in partnership with WNYC Studios, which was named Best Tech Podcast of 2017 by The Academy of Podcasters.

Prior to her time at WNYC, Zomorodi reported and produced around the world for BBC News and Thomson Reuters, including a few years in Berlin.

She was named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business for 2018 and has received numerous awards for her work, including The Gracie for Best Radio Host in 2014 and 2018. Her book "Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Creative Self" (2017, St. Martin's Press) and her TED Talk are guides to surviving information overload and the "Attention Economy."

Zomorodi received a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in English and fine arts. She is half-Persian and half-Swiss but was born in New York City, where she lives with her family.

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