EAP: Wellness Wednesday

[Kim McCoy Coleman]

Happy second Wednesday of the Spring semester (....or is it?),

How much of your job involves emotional labor?  You don't know what
emotional labor is?  <https://www.betterup.com/blog/emotional-labor>  Don't
stress, many people don't. Here is an overview from betterup.com and there
is an attached article below from the Harvard Business Review

Emotional labor is when a person is responsible for managing feelings and
emotions — whether yours or someone else’s — in order to maintain a job or
relationship. Our personalities are often tied into our work, and the work
we choose to do often reflects some aspect of who we are
<https://www.betterup.com/blog/does-your-work-match-your-personal-values?hsLang=en>.
For that reason, it's incredibly easy for the habits that we develop in one
area of our lives to show up elsewhere. But, if you're carrying emotional
weight in your work life and in your home life
<https://www.betterup.com/blog/no-work-you-and-home-you-just-whole-you?hsLang=en>,
when do you get to take a break? The kind of emotional labor of managing
(or not) our own feelings at work can be detrimental to our wellbeing.

*Resources for managing emotions: *

Developing psychological flexibility
<https://www.betterup.com/blog/psychological-flexibility?hsLang=en>

How to calm yourself down: 23 ways
<https://www.betterup.com/blog/how-to-calm-yourself-down?hsLang=en>

*Yoga at Work: *

Yoga at your desk <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAUf7aajBWE>

Chair Yoga <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ts01MC2mIo>

Yoga for hands, fingers, wrists
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxC4LhOrMFw>

Would you like more information? Feel free to reach out and set up an
appointment. It is free and confidential.

Your EAP coordinator (and fellow emotional laborer),

Kim McCoy Coleman
eap at plattsburgh.edu
518.569.4230

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*Kim McCoy Coleman, LMSW-ATR*

Assistant Professor of Social Work

Preferred Pronouns: she/her (why
<https://www.glsen.org/sites/default/files/GLSEN%20Pronouns%20Resource.pdf>)


SUNY Plattsburgh

Department of Social Work

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