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Daily Acts of Self-Care Can Ease Caregiving Stress

By Lee Woodruff — 2021

Light exercise, breathing techniques, even smiling can improve overall wellness

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Health Care? Daughters Know All About It

The essential role that daughters play in the American health care system is well known but has received little attention.

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Roni Caryn Rabin
2017
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The Mental Load: Managing a Burden You Can’t Actually See

Here’s what to know about the mental load—and how to bring it up with your partner.

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Crystal Raypole
2021
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New Caregiver Resource Collection From Supportiv Offers Step-By-Step Emotional Support

Supportiv’s new Caregiver collection of articles seeks to meet caregivers where they are, providing tools to create emotional change for the better, either within themselves, or together with the person for whom they’re caring.

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Christina Beck
2021
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It’s Time to Talk About the Cost of Emotional Labor at Work

Much like the struggle to recognize the economic contributions of childcare for stay-at-home parents, there could be a similar gap in the working world. The definition of emotional labor being used here is that of unpaid, invisible work.

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Lindsay Kohler
2021
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How ‘Service With a Smile’ Takes a Toll on Women

When workers’ emotions deviate from what’s expected of their gender, they are often left to process the backlash on their own.

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Adia Harvey Wingfield
2016
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The Mental Cost of Emotional Labor

“The research is pretty clear that surface acting is almost always bad for you.”

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Sarah Sloat
2019
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How to Avoid Doing All the Emotional Labor at Work

All those little details, necessary but distinctly un-flashy, are sometimes referred to as “emotional labor.” In the workplace, that labor may include booking a room for a meeting, reserving an event space, or keeping morale going with a Secret Santa exchange.

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Amy Swanson King
2019
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How Emotional Labor May Affect You at Work

It could be dragging down your job performance and psychological health.

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Stacey Colino
2018
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How to Talk to Your Boss About Emotional Labor

Effective strategies for discussing the invisible load you’re shouldering in the workplace.

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Gemma Hartley
2019
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Let Go of Toxic Workplace ‘Emotional Labour’ in 2019

What will you leave behind in 2019? Here’s one suggestion: toxic workplace emotional labour. If you’re an administrator or manager, you may have influence over that not only for you but for employees in your sphere of influence.

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Astrid H. Kendrick
2018
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