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- What has it been like thus far as a working mom?
- Challenge: Not in an environemnt where other people are in the same situation/no models or mentors
- Best: nice to be at work to have some fulfilling pieces and purpose in life/having a second identity outside of mother
- Tune in for ourselves and honor that
- Do what works best for your family
- Keep a sense of yourself
- Setting boundaries with work-in some ways it makes it easier
- Make space in the moment to have your feelings
- One path to burnout is feeling like we are indispensable
- Another opportunity kids give us: to heal through the perfectionist
- Felt like had to be a role model
- Opens up new relationships with our own parents
Listen to those that love you
Barbara Frederickson-reasech on positivity to thrive, we need a 3:1 ratio (positive to negative)
Broaden and build: when in a state of positive emtion, our thinking is more expansive and we can see more possibilities, and we are far more open to learning new things
Gratitude: A practice to help us rewire our brain; a heart opening exercise (it softens and opens our hearts)
Gratitude journal, catch yourself in the moment, make a call, write a gratitude letter, reflect on the day before getting home
Change the world through one act of kindness at a time.
Action items