The psychotherapist in training is taught, among other things, certain skills of emotional self-management, ones which induce a gap between affect and its expression. She is taught to acknowledge her ...

Here’s a science-inspired and reflective tool to uncover the hidden emotional labor you do before you even say a single word.

Everyone expends emotional labor to some degree, but it affects certain types of people more than others. How much energy do you and your people spend showing emotions? Or, on hiding them? For example ...

While researching some thought processes, I came upon the Author Arlie Russell Hochschild who introduced our society to the term “Emotional Labor.” She wrote an influential book about it entitled “The ...

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Laura Danger is an expert on weaponized incompetence and has been interviewed by several outlets. Her book "No More Mediocre" is a guide to dismantling inequitable relationship dynamics. This is an ...

Can you see yourself in one of these scenarios, or a similar one? If so, you’re spending what’s called “emotional labor.” What is emotional labor? How does it affect you and your people? And how can ...