Category: Burn Out
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The Exhaustion of Being the Emotional Manager
One of the most common relationship dynamics I see is not necessarily a lack of love or effort. More often, it is an imbalance in emotional and mental labor that develops so gradually that couples do not fully recognize it until resentment, exhaustion, or disconnection have already started building underneath the surface. In many relationships,…
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When Caring Starts to Hurt: Systems, Burnout, and Staying Whole in Helping Work
There’s a conversation that happens quietly in helping professions. It happens in hallways after hard meetings. In texts between colleagues late at night. In that moment when you sit in your car after work a little longer than usual because you are not ready to bring the day inside your house yet. It usually starts…
Amanda Brindle, LCSW 