Historically, women have been faced with the decision to choose a career or kids, and even men to some degree, if their partner was very successful. In the most traditional circumstances, women gave up their career for several years to stay at home with the kids. More recently, we saw more women who wanted to remain in the workforce to further their career and when they made this choice, the kids went to daycare. Now we’re seeing yet another shift. Parents and partners are making the decision together to ...

At various times in your life, you put yourself on the back burner due to other priorities, responsibilities, or pressing demands. This could be due to everything from health concerns to caregiving responsibilities to major life changes. This deprioritization of self can only last so long before you end up feeling depleted, lost, purposeless, or exhausted. As you approach these unsettling feelings, you may also experience a yearning for a more integrated self, seek deeper balance and question what “whole self” really means for you right now.

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