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  • By: Enoch Li
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  • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary

"In Stress in the City, Enoch illuminates how playfulness can be one of the most potent vaccines against stress and depression." Vivian Lau, President, JA Asia Pacific Limited 

Having grown up in Hong Kong and Australia and educated in France, Enoch Li always had international aspirations. By her 28th birthday, she had achieved everything she had ever laboured toward. Her mum was speechlessly proud of her financial earnings, she had a supportive and loving romantic partner, and she had lots of friends who adored her. So why did she feel as though something was missing?

One could hardly guess that a strong, successful young woman who traveled the world, lived in multiple cities, had a high paying salary and had rocketed up the corporate ladder, would one day crumble to pieces, so hopeless and devastated that she believed life was no longer worth living.

In Stress in the City, Enoch Li shares her experiences at the top of the corporate game, reflects on the warning signs she refused to see, and documents her journey back from the edge through the rediscovery of her inner child.

Enoch also discusses how companies can help their executives be mentally and emotionally well through her research into the psychology of playfulness, workplace burnout, and company culture. 

You might just find that the toys around us may be more meaningful than you think!

Trigger are proud to announce Theinspirationalseries partner to their innovative Pullingthetrigger range. Theinspirationalseries promotes the idea that mental illness should be talked about freely and without fear. 

©2018 Trigger (P)2018 Trigger

Critic reviews

"A revolutionary call to rethink our mindset, and to adopt refreshing and fun ways to prevent burnout in the workplace." (Bill Lu, vice president, Global Human Resources, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts)

"An evocative journey from mental ill health to mental wellbeing." (Chris Underhill, MBE, Social Entrepreneur. Founder BasicNeeds & co-founder citiesRISE)

"Enoch's story is not just worth reading, it is worth repeating." (Rui Ma, Ex Head of 500 Start Ups, China and Founder, Euzen Labs & Transformative Tech Academy)

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Inspiring, important and life-changing book.

I've been a fan of trigger press books for a while now but even by there standards this was brilliant. Very rarely do books have as much impact as this one has and will have on me. Enoch's story is one that hundreds of thousands will have - working too hard, having no mental health support and experiencing burnout leading to severe depression.

From this though, she relates how she has come to not only acknowledge the importance playing and the ability to play will have on improving mental well-being at work, but dedicate her working life too it. Founding 'bearapy' she now advocates around the world for workplaces to let employees 'play' and encourage employees to find their inner child more and not be completely work orientated.

This is something lots of people will no doubt support but very rarely do people actually push for it like Enoch does. Along listening to this or reading it, please do visit her blog and follow her work. Changes in the workplace environment could really benefit everyone, employees and employers.

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