Mind & Emotions

Lately, we’ve been talking a lot about emotional labour on the home front, check out just what the symptoms of emotional labour burnout might look like

Welcome to winter! For many of us, winter can trigger the arrival of ‘the blues’ - a general low mood that can see us skipping our usual, healthy routines.

While optimism certainly has its place, there are times when sadness is not something that can be brushed aside with a positive attitude or a motivational slogan.

One of the quietest but most significant freedoms later in life is the ability to care less about what other people think.

Granting enjoyment a place in life is one thing, choosing it openly, without the need to justify or soften it, can feel far more difficult.

Wherever emotional labour is required, one thing is true: it exacts a toll on the one who performs it. Let’s take a look at just why that is.

It happens more than most of us want to admit – but using our kids as a dumping ground for our pent-up emotions, is not a healthy habit.

Unlike a spur of the moment ‘row,’ relationship fatigue sneaks up gradually, and is more likely to occur in long term relationships where partners have begun to take each other for granted.

Emotional labour was a term first coined in 1983 by sociologist, Arlie Hochschild, when she was in the midst of studying the experiences of flight attendants.

Few beliefs are more quietly paralysing than the thought, “It’s too late.” It creeps in when decisions feel complicated, or when the past seems littered with “should haves.”