I want to try something with you today.
Introduce yourself to me. Without mentioning your kids. Without mentioning your job or your role at home. Just you, in a few words, as a person.
Most midlife women cannot finish that sentence. It comes up blank, or they start and then quickly loop back to someone else. Her daughter is heading to university. She has been a stay at home mum for fifteen years. She runs a team of thirty.
➡️We know exactly who we are in relation to other people. Ask us who we are on our own, and the room goes quiet.
That is what twenty years of being needed looks like. The woman you were before everyone needed something from you did not disappear. She just got hidden. And finding her is not reinvention. It is recovery.
📝Try the question tonight. On paper. You might surprise yourself.