On Processing Emotional Labor - a podcast by Alyson Pallanck
from 2021-11-09T04:00
In today’s episode were talking about emotional labor! By the end of the episode, you will be able to identify what emotional labor is, you’ll learn ways in which emotional labor shows up in your own life, learn how it influences your day to day, understand the consequences of emotional labor and learn a couple prompts to help your process / and manage the effort you put forth into emotional labor moving forward. Along the way, I’ll share my own processing of the term, how it shows up in my life and talk about how emotional labor can ultimately drive a need for something new which may land us in our next season of transition.
Episode Details
[3:37] What is emotional labor?
[5:30] Emotional labor feels like…
[8:30] How emotional labor influences the way you show up in the world
[9:00] Emotional labor in the workplace…
[10:45] Consequences of emotional labor
[12:06] On feeling disconnected from your most authentic self…
[13:29] Emotional labor is often invisible and complex
[14:15] Journal prompts
[15:30] Why apologizing for experiencing hard emotions isn’t the answer
Resources
Articles on Emotional Labor Referenced in the Episode:
“Emotional labor, like physical labor, is effortful and fatiguing when done repeatedly all day long, and can be costly in terms of performance errors and job burnout, especially when surface acting because it results in feeling inauthentic.
Research has also shown that the anxiety and fatigue from surface acting spills over to harm home life, in the form of reduced helping at home, insomnia, and increased alcohol consumption.”
Emotional Labor Journal Prompts:
· What are the emotional labor requirements of your job?
· How do you deal with these requirements?
· How often do you experience emotional conflict?
· Do you think emotional conflict has led to emotional exhaustion?
· How do you manage stress and other signs of emotional exhaustion?
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