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Your Work Smile Has a Body Count

You feel it in your jaw before you feel it anywhere else.

The tightening happens right before you answer him — the colleague who just spoke over you for the third time this meeting, who doesn’t notice, who never notices. Your mouth is already curving upward. You didn’t decide this. Something decided it for you, faster than thought, faster than the anger that hasn’t finished arriving.

The same muscle does the same work at home, when your partner explains your own feelings back to you, slower than you said them the first time. It does it again in the waiting room, when the doctor talks past you…

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