{"id":3095,"date":"2026-08-10T13:16:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/staying-professional-takes-energy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:16:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:16:45","slug":"staying-professional-takes-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/staying-professional-takes-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying professional takes energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStaying professional takes energy.\u201d Stress expert Elke Van Hoof on emotional labor and stress-sensitive work practices. <\/p>\n<p>How do you deal with a difficult customer who throws you off balance? What happens in your body when someone reacts angrily, forcefully, or passively-aggressively? And how do you make sure that one conversation doesn\u2019t ruin your whole day?  <\/p>\n<p>In this episode of \u201cStress as a BFF,\u201d stress expert Elke Van Hoof explains what happens in your brain when a client triggers your stress response. She shows why emotional labor is so exhausting and how quickly you fall back on automatic responses when the pressure mounts. <\/p>\n<p>The debriefing method teaches you how to properly wrap up a conversation afterward and let it go. It also clarifies why some people are more sensitive to these kinds of situations and what is needed at the organizational level to better support employees in this regard. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStaying professional takes energy.\u201d Stress expert Elke Van Hoof on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[292],"class_list":["post-3095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-podcast-episode-49"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}