Mothers today are facing extreme emotional demands. As one crisis follows another, they try to understand and regulate their children's feelings – even though many were not taught this in their own childhood. They mediate conflicts with grandparents, ensure harmony in their partnerships, and create a positive atmosphere at work. Susanne Mierau, an expert in needs-oriented family life, shows ways for mothers to shed, redistribute, and live a more emotionally healthy family life. For more ease and joy instead of emotional overload.

Do we really need another term to describe the exhaustion of mothers? Absolutely. Emotional Load is the emotional burden that mothers carry with them every day: from discrimination to misogyny, from burdens stemming from their own childhood, and especially from the ongoing responsibility for all the emotional issues in family, partnership, and work. We will closely examine where more emotional work is expected from us than from men and where we are pushed into seemingly self-evident responsibilities. The path to emotional well-being does not mean we need to optimize ourselves even further. The way out of Emotional Load begins with a look at yourself, your individual backpack, and your emotional muscle mass. We will explore how burdens built up over generations can be dismantled within and around us, and how we can implement this concretely in the areas of parenting, family, partnership, and profession.