Making Time For Feelings

Perhaps the deepest self-care is making time to process your emotions.

There's a name for grief we don't feel like we're allowed to have or that is not acknowledged by society, it's called disenfranchised grief.

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.