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When emotional performance becomes your reality

I realized I've been performing happiness for so long that I genuinely cannot tell what my actual emotions are anymore.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The habit of managing others' comfort through emotional labor can erase your access to your own inner experience.

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