Emotional Labor, Burnout & Completing The Stress Cycle: Episode 285

The Mom Hour

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Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all heard the terms ‘mental load’ and ’emotional labor,’ but it’s easy to toss them around without pausing to really understand what’s happening in our minds and bodies when we carry prolonged stress with us in our roles as mothers and household managers. Today Meagan and Sarah look at the different ways stress manifests in our own bodies (and psyches), and offer concrete tips for managing feelings of burnout in a particularly challenging season.

This episode was inspired in part by a recent episode of Brene Brown’s Unlocking Us podcast and an interview with authors Amelia and Emily Nagoski about their new book Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle.

LINKS MENTIONED:

How to Get Your Partner to Take on More Emotional Labor (Britni de la Cretaz, New York Times)
Moms Do More Invisible Labor, But It’s Possible to Lighten the Load (Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping)
This episode is inspired by an episode from Brene Brown’s Unlocking Us Podcast, Brené with Emily and Amelia Nagoski on Burnout and How to Complete the Stress Cycle

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from little to
0:05.7	grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages of life. But we both know that
0:10.5	motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share tips and encouragement.
0:14.0	And remind you that it's really all going to be okay.
0:16.4	We're not experts. We're parents who've been there.
0:18.6	We're not perfect. We're real.
0:20.2	Welcome to the mom hour.
0:21.6	Hi everyone and welcome to episode 285 of the Mom Hour.
0:26.0	I am Megan Francis here as always with Sarah Powers.
0:29.0	How are you doing Sarah?
0:30.0	Are you stressed?
0:31.0	I mean, not right now because I'm doing one of my favorite things which is I'm sitting in my bed with a blanket on me and I'm talking to you so in the moment right now I don't feel super stressed in the macro zoomed out level yeah
0:44.4	I think moms are stressed right now we sure are you know we've been talking I feel like
0:48.3	we've kind of hit on this a few times in topics lately like we did the two episodes
0:52.3	about how COVID is complicating everything.
0:54.6	Yeah. We've had some really heavy conversations in our Facebook group and I think what
0:58.6	really all signs are pointing to is that moms are bearing the brunt of emotional labor and mental load and it's
1:06.7	it's kind of leading to burn out and and we kind of had two episodes where really all we did was say it's a lot over and over.
1:14.0	Like we just laid out all the problems and kind of sympathized and commiserated and I think that has value but I think we wanted to come back here and delve a little bit more
1:23.0	into what's going on and why it feels so heavy
1:25.6	and then actually offers some maybe help.
1:28.0	Yeah.
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