Episode 23: What Is Your Work From Home Environment Doing to You?

Around 6.7 million Australians now work from home in some capacity.

For helping professionals, that often means holding trauma, conflict, high-stakes conversations and emotional intensity inside our own homes.

But we rarely stop to ask:

What is our work from home environment actually doing to us?

In this first solo episode of 2026, I share honest reflections from my own experience, from working at the dining table, to sweating through confidential meetings in a hot garage, to overworking when unwell because “I’ll just work from home.”

This episode explores the hidden psychological impact of blurred physical boundaries, lack of transition time, overworking, and environments that quietly erode psychological safety.

In This Episode:

• Why your work from home environment directly impacts your mood, regulation and performance
• The hidden cost of no commute time
• The myth that working from home is a “rest” when you’re unwell
• Eating at your desk and unpaid lunch patterns
• Physical discomfort and its impact on client care and leadership capacity
• Climate control, sensory needs and cognitive load
• Small, practical changes that improve sustainability when working from home

This isn’t about aesthetics, although I must admit I do like a good office colour scheme.

It’s about whether your environment supports your nervous system to do complex helping work well.

Free Resource: Work From Home Environment Self-Audit:

If this episode resonated, you can download it for free now.

It helps you reflect on:

• Physical setup and ergonomics
• Sensory stimulation and climate
• Emotional containment
• Whether your environment supports psychological safety

Download it here

Ways We Can Work Together:

Boundaries as Practitioners – Self-Paced Two-Part Self-Paced Training ($59)

Clinical Supervision & Leadership Supervision

Organisational Training on Psychological Safety and Psychosocial Hazards

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If this episode made you pause, I’d love to hear from you.

At the end of a work-from-home day, how do you actually feel?

And what might your environment be contributing to that feeling?

Thank you for listening.

Jazmin