Your toxic boss doesn't get to own your weekend too.

You leave Friday at 5pm, but Saturday morning you're still replaying that meeting. Checking your phone. By Sunday at 4pm your chest is tight because Monday is coming. Your workplace follows you home — not because they're texting you (though some do), but because your brain won't let it go. That's not weakness. That's what a hostile environment does to your nervous system.

This episode is the specific playbook for weekend psychological detox when you're trapped in a toxic workplace — not generic self-care advice.

What you'll learn:

• The 5pm Hard Stop Protocol — the routine that creates real mental separation between work and home, even when your boss ignores boundaries
• Rumination interruption — how to break the loop when your brain keeps replaying toxic intera ...