Honest writing for women in the middle of something.
Career change, relocation, business rebuilds, identity shifts and the question of what comes next.
Why capable women can love their work and still end up close to burnout, why they blame themselves for it, and why knowing where you are comes before deciding what's next.
Why capable, senior women answer 'fine' when something has gone flat, why it's so hard to say anything truer, and why knowing where you are matters more than knowing what's next.
I don't think anybody has named what happens when the knowing stops being the scarce thing, and it's happening quickly to a lot of women who won't say so.
When someone leaves a job, we mark it. There's a leaving do, people say things out loud, and everybody understands that something is ending. Nobody thinks to do this at discharge.

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