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Do you feel exhausted from the emotional labor required from you?
Last week, everyone in my world was having a meltdown. My kid, my husband, my clients, my friends. It was all an overflowing river of big feelings that needed to be tended to.
So I tended. I supported them to rupture, metabolise, repair.
I loved doing it. I loved the intimacy and magic it created.
But I was also fucking exhausted.
And wondering when do I get to refuel from all this labouring?
Historically, women’s emotional labor has seen as a natural resources as plentiful as air. We expected women to be the caring, compassionate, mum-like-figures (in any/all roles we play, including at work).
We expect the emotional labor women provide to be effortless & free. Well, fuck that!
Emotional labor is a choice, a skill & an effort that I can only give when I’m resourced.
I believe it’s time our culture upgraded our language, awareness & definitions of emotional labor so that we might all come to understand, support & value it more fully. As always, the work starts with us, and our bodies.
Today on the podcast:
- We’re defining ‘what is emotional labor?’ (Tip – you’re doing TONS of it all the time)
- We’re exploring if you value emotional labor, or if you’ve internalized the dominant narrative that it’s nothing special & not very valuable
- We speak about the feminist roots of emotional labor in the family unit
- I’ll share the story I overheard in the hairdresser last week which shocked me
- We unpack what we need to do ‘emotional labor’ & do it well
- Feeling selfish or guilty for taking ‘time for yourself’?
- I share 5 of the key things I need to do it well
Once you’ve tuned in the key question I pose, and would love you to answer is this…
- What do I need to do emotional labor, and do it well?
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Resources Mentioned in This Podcast
- Credit – Silvia Federici
- Credit – Emotional Labor was first defined by sociologist Arlie Hochschild, Ph.D., in 1983 – but the definition I’m using here is a more modern & expanded definition
- Primal Feminine Flow – An at-home, feminine embodiment movement practice to resensitize the body
- Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
- School of Embodied Arts
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