Rekindling with Julie Squires:

Today's episode is short and sweet but impactful. It's tempting to go through our lives comparing our experiences to others and not even recognizing the extraordinariness of our life. This episode will have you thinking about your own extraordinary life. To join my weekly email list, text REKINDLE to 66866.

Emotional labor refers to employees having to suppress or discount their feelings at work in order to appease others. This may be around veterinary clients, someone surrendering a pet at your shelter, or even in a corporate setting where rules or guidelines have been put into place about what is acceptable and not acceptable despite how the other person may be behaving.

I'm not talking about an "actual" funeral in this episode. I'm talking what you can do when things don't go how you want. Give yourself a 5-Second Funeral, let it go and move on.

Do you know when you've reached your limit before you've gone too far? Do you have to get to burnout before recognizing you need to change things? Do you find yourself abandoning your own needs because you don't want to feel guilty for "letting others down"?

Clearly you are someone who is here to make their mark on this world. You do big work. You save or improve lives. You help provide a good death. That’s BIG work my friend.  BIG work comes with BIG emo

So many people are trying to create new results in their lives in an attempt to feel better about themselves. But it doesn't work that way. We don't get self-confidence from the results we create. We