What is emotionally heavy work and what does it feel like to do it? This episode explores the experience of being "the person who can handle it," the invisible trades we make, and why the impact is so hard to see while it's happening. For funeral directors, first responders and trauma-exposed, helping professions.

Welcome to In Life a space for people who do emotionally heavy work, and who are trying to understand what that work does to them over time.

In this first episode, our host introduces herself, explains what this podcast is (and isn't), and who it's for.

• Your host: 22 years as a funeral director, 11+ years in emergency dispatch

• What "In Life" means and why this podcast exists

• What emotionally heavy work does to people over time

• Why the conversations that should have happened didn't

• Who this space is for (and what makes it different from self-help or clinical approaches)

"You're not broken. You're not failing. You're human, doing work in systems that were never designed to support the people doing it."

If you're struggling or starting to notice signs that things aren't quite right, please reach out. You don't have to carry this alone.

Worldwide:

• Funeral Professionals Peer Support (FPPS) 1-613-917-8057 https://funeralspeersupport.com/support/

Canada:

• First Responder Support: Boots on the Ground: 1-833-677-2668, https://www.bootsontheground.ca

• 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988

  
  

  Canada Mental Health Support: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/mental-health-services/mental-health-get-help.html

Workplace Support:

• Check with your employer for Employee Assistance Program (EAP) access

The host of In Life is a licensed Funeral Director in Canada with over 20 years in funeral service, and a former Emergency Communications Officer with 11+ years dispatching for ambulance and fire. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Health Sciences in Workplace Health and Wellness

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"There are a lot of conversations about this work that don't happen out loud.

In Life is a place for some of them."