If you’re about to go back to work after maternity leave, or you’re already back and wondering why it feels so much harder than expected, this episode is for you.
The truth is, no one really prepares you for the emotional reality of the return. The guilt. The overwhelm. The strange feeling of being expected to show up as the same person you were before, when you are fundamentally, beautifully different.
In this episode, I’m walking you through what the first 90 days of returning to work after parental leave actually looks like – the messy, the hard, and what genuinely helps.
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