The Emotional Labor Nobody Sees

ND mothers carry double labor in December: the visible tasks and the invisible emotional management.

We aren’t overwhelmed because we lack skills.

We’re overwhelmed because the system assumes we’ll absorb everything.

Somatic reflection:

Whose emotions have you been regulating this week besides your own?

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