Emotional Load

Emotional Load

How mothers can free themselves from emotional overload

Mothers have a particularly heavy emotional burden to carry. They accompany children’s feelings while at the same time trying to cope with the stressful feelings from their own childhood. Mothers moderate grandparents’ conflicts, regulate the whole family’s emotional climate, and listen sympathetically to the daycare manager. In the workplace, they are often the “open ear” for others or responsible for keeping the general mood up. This book’s author is an expert on family issues and gets to the bottom of emotional load. It provides mothers with much-needed relief, showing them ways to shed emotional baggage for a more relaxed everyday family life. Susanne Mierau explains how -Emotions arise and lead to overload, -Emotional load can be reduced and distributed, and -We can strengthen children to deal with emotions in a healthy way. • The first book about the emotional load borne by mothers • Shows the extent of the emotional overload of needs-oriented mothers • Solutions for an end to emotional exhaustion