• I was a stay-at-home parent for 12 years, and after my divorce, I reentered the workforce. • I have my three kids half-time, and juggling parenting and rebuilding my professional life is tough. • It's forced me to rethink my relationship with work and how I see success.

After 12 years as a stay-at-home parent, my divorce forced a reckoning: I had to learn how to support myself and rebuild a professional life from scratch. I had become pregnant with my first child in my early 20s before I'd established a full-time, steady career, and after years out of traditional paid work, I struggled to see the value in what I had done. Questions about what I "do for a living" began to feel haunting.

Before, my days were structured around the rhythms of the household and the endless invisible lab

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