💡 Life Tip - How to Recover from a Hidden Cost that Takes You Down (Issue #31)

Emotional labor has a toll

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I was absolutely drained.

Surprisingly, my first white-collar job left me more exhausted by the end of the day than any of my previous hard-labor blue-collar jobs had in the past. At the time, I didn’t understand why and didn’t have the words to explain it.

Now, I do; Emotional Labor.

I was experiencing the cognitive and…