The Invisible Work of Keeping Everyone Emotionally Alive
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The Invisible Work of Keeping Everyone Emotionally Alive
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You're not just managing the logistics of your household. You're managing the emotional lives of everyone in it. All the time. Noticing the moods, tracking the tensions, holding the space, soothing the feelings. While your own emotional life gets dealt with last, if it all.
This is called emotional labour. It's real, it costs something, and it almost never gets talked about honestly.
In this episode, Sarah gets into what emotional labour actually is, why it falls so disproportionately on mothers, what it does to your sense of self over time, and what actually helps. Including the hardest things of all - letting yourself be held, not just holding everyone else.
Reflection prompt: When was the last time you let someone hold you? And if it's been a while, what would it take to let that happen?
Find Sarah at www.sarahbabiker.com, www.instagram.com/mothercircleuae, and www.instagram.com/_sarahbabiker_