Even just following Kayla the Myo Therapist or The Myo Spot has been super super helpful for me bc I can’t personally afford Myo Therapy and they provide so much info on how to address these issues and exercises to properly strengthen the correct muscles in the face

I highly recommend looking into Myofunctional therapy! It’s meant to address the root issues for things like TMJ, teeth clenching, and even mouth breathing that acupuncture and Botox only help ease. So much more is related to our airway function and tongue posture than you would think

This was just a very brief summary of Hochschild’s academic work reduced down to a few hundred characters. You are welcome to look into her work yourself, but the quoted “faking” very much falls under her definition

He just wants to eat dinner with his friend!

Meanwhile, emotion work refers to performing emotions within personal and private spaces. I don’t say this to be nitpicky or pedantic, but I will always bring this up bc I think it is so important that we identify the labor of performing emotions at work as *labor*

Help this is so funny