I feel like I'm sensing from you what you really need is ways to not feel consumed by your responsibilities and to claim your life as your own, even within your responsibilities.

Because these are things you've chosen and you value them.

Yeah.

And you want this life.

But you also want it to feel like yours.

Yeah. life. But you also want it to feel like yours. Hi, this is Monica Packer, and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about

progress made practical. I want you to think about a season of your life where everything shifted. Maybe it was graduating

from college, getting married, having your first child, starting your career. There's one major

life shift that I don't think we talk often about, going from being a working mother to a stay-at-home one.

This shift is often deeply valued by the women who make it, but surprisingly challenging.

Women in this position often tell me that their days feel fuller, but somehow emptier at the same

time. It's confusing internally,

and then they add on the extra challenge of being in an urgency-bound role and struggling to make

time for themselves to make this life still feel like theirs. That's exactly where today's guest

Janie found herself. After becoming a mom of two,

Janie recently stepped away from her career as a social worker. She expected the transition to be hard,

but she didn't expect to feel this lost and isolated and consumed by the endless to-does of motherhood.

She shared that this shift felt even bigger than having her second baby. In this coaching call, we talk about why these identity shifts are so

disorienting, how it's not a lack of discipline that makes self-care habits hard for moms. It's a

lack of realistic opportunity and how small moments

of intentional me time can actually help life feel like yours again. We also explore how to

rebuild community without adding undue pressure, how to create structure that works in real

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