You gotta let some things go and part of that is trusting your network and saying,

hey, my child is loved and they're safe, right? Those two things are really important for me.

Like, we can't just let grandparents do whatever they want with safety.

There has to be safety and there has to be love. Those are your non-negotiables.

Everything else, you kind of have to say, I'm not here. I'm not going to ask questions.

I'm just going to go on my trip. I'm obviously going to hopefully maybe video chat,

connect with my child, you know, talk to them. But that is, I think, so important in order

for us to feel like we even want to go is getting into that mindset that I trust my partner or

trust whoever's going to be there. And I'm going to let go of the control because I'm not there.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. I am Dr. Mona and thank you so much for joining me

each week for your reviews, sharing this podcast with all of your friends and loved ones.

It means so much to me to see the growth that this show has done since we debuted in 2020.

On this episode of Monday Mornings with Dr. Mona, I chat with a mom from this community,

Susmita, about overcoming guilt of traveling as a working mom. Tune in to the conversation here.

Hey, Susmita, thank you so much for joining me on today's show. So tell me what is on your mind

today as a mom? Hi Dr. Mona, so happy to be here. So yeah, I've been a mom in the pandemic.

My son is still year, three months old. And then before I became a mom, honestly,

my goal in life was never to be, I mean, I did not think of becoming a mom. I was mostly like,

you know, oriented like, you know, I want this job and that's all that I could think of.

And then few years after like finished my schooling and all that, I thought, okay, I'm going to try

motherhood of chance and then pregnant and have my son. And with the pandemic, finally,

things are getting back to where they were, which means that sometimes I do have to travel for work

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