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The pressure to succeed presents a significant challenge to well-being, health, and key connections.

Being an absent parent or allowing work stress to spill into home life puts family relationships at risk.

Rationalizing missing out on important moments does not change reality, but prioritizing family can.

Achieving work-life balance requires refocusing our attention on what matters most at home.

In the film Jay Kelly, George Clooney portrays a superstar celebrity whose climb to the top has frayed connections with the people most important to him—his agent-best friend and his daughters.

Clooney, starring as the main character Jay Kelly, dramatizes the devastating havoc that devotion to work and career plays on friendship and family dynamics. The movie centers on a tribute to Kelly’s onscreen achievements and underscores how your job and the stress it creates can isolate you from family and loyal friends.

In the real world, Dr. Guy Winch, author of “Mind Over Grind: How to Break Free When Work Hijacks Your Life,” explains why this happens. “Our unconscious mind believes that work is our top priority; it........

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