Inner Work 108: Emotional Labor (and the Emotional Work of Being a Healer)
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
What is emotional labor? How do you know when you're doing it? And what are the costs and consequences associated with that labor?
Join me for an in-depth exploration of emotional labor, what it is, and how to recognize when you're doing it (and why you're doing it). In this episode, I offer specific examples of emotional labor across three spaces: at home, in relationships, and in your work as a healer or service-based provider.
As healers, we must engage in particular kinds of emotional labor when we work with clients individually or in group settings. As we run through the different types of emotional labor you might be doing in your life and work, I invite you to notice which of these you tend to engage in the most... and which are most draining for you. What kind of emotional labor are you doing simply out of a sense of obligation, family expectations, or social conditioning? Are you doing emotional labor to please others or avoid conflict? If so, how can you shift that pattern?
In this episode, I announced my Akashic Records Level 1 Training Course. You can explore that here:
https://josephinehardman.com/work-with-me/akashic-records-training-level-1/
Resources on emotional labor:
https://weld.la.psu.edu/what-is-emotional-labor/
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Music & editing by G. Demers
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast. I'm your host, Josephine Hartman. I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher, driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within. To explore my work or connect |
| 0:22.9 | with me, you can visit josephinehartman.com. If you feel called to support the podcast, |
| 0:29.1 | please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts. I so appreciate your presence here, |
| 0:34.4 | and I'm honored to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while. |
| 0:40.2 | Now, on to the episode. |
| 0:45.2 | I've got a quick announcement before we jump into the episode. I have recently launched a brand |
| 0:51.2 | new Akashik Records Level 1 training course, which is a fully automated |
| 0:56.3 | and self-paced training that walks you through how to access and read and work with your |
| 1:02.3 | own Akashic records to heal dysfunctional patterns, discover your deepest soul purpose, create |
| 1:09.0 | a direct connection to divine guidance on command, and expand your |
| 1:14.1 | healing and spiritual growth. If this calls to you, if you're interested in the course, you can |
| 1:20.0 | explore all of the details, the modules, the content, the pricing by going to my website, |
| 1:26.8 | josephinehardman.com and then clicking on work with me and the Akashik Records course. |
| 1:33.3 | You can also access the course page much more directly through the link that I have included in the show notes. |
| 1:42.3 | And now let's get into the episode. Today we're talking about emotional labor, |
| 1:49.3 | especially in the context of doing healing work in the role of intuitive healer, energy healer, |
| 1:56.4 | counselor, therapist, coach, or other service-based professional who interacts with clients on a one-on-one |
| 2:03.6 | basis. However, this episode is also going to be useful to you to examine where and how and why |
| 2:12.6 | you're doing emotional labor in your life, what that emotional labor might be costing you, and how you want to approach your emotional labor in your life, what that emotional labor might be costing you and how you want to |
| 2:19.8 | approach your emotional labor moving forward. So by definition, emotional labor refers to regulating |
| 2:28.0 | or managing emotional expressions with others as part of one's professional work role. |
| 2:35.0 | So this is basically the first definition of emotional labor from 1983. |
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