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Welcome to the Resilient Mind Podcast.

In this episode, you'll be listening to Is Staying Silent Making You Sick?

with Melissa Doman.

This episode is also available on video.

Watch it on YouTube by clicking the link in the show notes.

Enjoy.

Most heart attacks happen like either Sunday night or Monday morning when people have to go to work.

What makes a conversation more productive versus it being risky?

What does workplace silence around emotional suppression, mental health actually cost us?

Today's conversation is about resilience, not just as an individual trait, but as a workplace reality.

Because while we talk a lot about performance and productivity, we don't talk enough about mental health of the people behind the titles, the employees and the leaders.

What does it really mean to talk about mental health in a way that's skillful, professional and human?

And what happens when the very people responsible for creating psychological safety don't have it themselves?

I'm joined by Melissa Doman, organizational psychologist, former clinical therapist, and author of Yes, You Can Talk About Mental Health at Work, and their latest book, Cornered Office, Why We Need to Talk About Leadership, Mental Health.

Hair work breeds the gap between mental health and leadership, challenging the idea that resilience means pushing through in silence.

Melissa, welcome to the podcast.

So maybe let's start on a more overview in terms of when we're talking about resilience, especially in the workplace, what are we getting wrong?

And where do you think the line between true resilience and emotional suppression is, especially in those high-performing environments?

And do you think part of that emotional suppression is maybe people don't want to be seen as being weak or they're afraid that if they actually express how they are feeling, they may not actually be able to control how it comes out?

And from your work with both employees and leaders, what does workplace silence around emotional suppression, mental health actually cost us?