Understanding Matrescence

I was screaming at the telly…. 🥹

“There’s a word. A reason!! ….A bloody HUGE significant life transition that needs supporting”

Have you watched Maternal yet???
I finally caught up last night.

The scene where Maz the incredible says,

“I feel like I can’t remember the doctor I was before I had children. Like all of the pieces of me are thrown up in the air and I am still waiting for them to land back down.”

Oh my goodness… ❤️

It’s called matrescence.

And somehow we NEED to find a way of making everyone aware (-check out if you haven’t already)

👉There’s a reason mothers feel this way.

What a cracking description ITV.

If only there is a way of getting this word, this explanation out there….!

Did you feel this way when returning back to work from may leave????

Let me know your experience below👇👇👇

MATRESCENCE = YOUR NEW LENS for considering the ‘person’ behind the
‘parent’

How much preparation did you do for the physical arrival of baby? …A lot! Right.

But then, ask yourself… how much consideration did you make towards how the new baby will impact the lives and identity of it’s parents? (YOU!)

Not much consideration… hmmm

How will it impact your social life?
ambition?
finances?
relationship roles and responsibilities?

Then take those changes and apply them to the workplace.

New deadlines.
New pressures.
New sleep deprivation.
New ambiguity.
New competing devotions.
New anxieties.
New. New. New… (you get the point 😂)

How much consideration did your employer make towards helping you prepare or settle back in?

What conversations could have been had that would have encouraged you to feel more confident?

More valued? More understood?

Far too many mothers are leaving the workplace in the early years of motherhood, because they do not feel they are able to manage it all.

Employers lose great talent with little warning.. all because these conversations are not being had.

It makes me crazy mad. This could be helped. Your corporate identity needn’t take such a nose dive… your family finances… your marital roles could be more equal. All because basic conversations are not being had.

Places of work might have great ‘family friendly policies’ in place.. but if they’re not having the conversations to drive change.. there’s still a huge part missing.

A huge part that YOU NEED if you’re to be enabled to thrive.

I can help you with exactly this!

DM to have a free convo about ways to talk to your employer about implementing this. Help me, help you make change 💥

Please share or comment below to help me spread the word 🗣️ thank you!

PS. Photo for no reason other than I thought it was funny. Bear doing an impression of me apparently 😂🤔🥰)