2018
Diane fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted son. As these pieces of her existence begin to fade, she finds herself confronting memories she’d sooner forget than face.
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Careers that demand empathy, vigilance, and compassion can leave workers drained and traumatized. As researchers discover the true toll of emotional labor, employees are finally getting the help they need to stick to their calling.
The essential role that daughters play in the American health care system is well known but has received little attention.
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.
Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles.
Hiding your feelings can be freeing. But eventually you have to take off the mask.
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Yvonne Sawbridge says that caring professionals offer hard, emotional work. In the same way in which physical labour is recognised and accounted for in management practice, emotional labour needs to be recognised as a role requirement for nurses and other caring professions.