42. Midlife Burnout & Emotional Labor: 5 Ways to Stop Carrying the Mental Load

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This episode explores the impact of emotional labor, the mental load, and burnout for women in midlife.

Send us Fan Mail This episode explores the impact of emotional labor, the mental load, and burnout for women in midlife. Many women silently carry the responsibility of managing other people’s emotions, needs, schedules, and relationships—often without realizing how much emotional energy and mental bandwidth it requires. LaShonda shares personal insight into how emotional labor and the invisible mental load showed up in her friendships, marriage, parenting, and career, and how constantly anti...

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Host: LaShonda Walker

Topics covered

• emotional labor
• midlife burnout
• mental load
• women's issues
• relationships

Keywords

• emotional labor
• mental load
• burnout
• midlife
• women

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