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There is a potential new client on the horizon, and you have been asked to lead the pitch. Or perhaps you are about to launch, and you know next week it is going to be full on campaign mode. For the past few weeks, you have been experiencing night sweats and are not sleeping that well. Getting the kids out the door to school zaps your energy before you have even started your commute into work. The key fob is left on the dining room table. Oh, and did someone just mention it was World Book Day tomorrow!

It’s been 15 years since I returned to work from my first maternity leave. Whilst I’m grateful for the support and flexibility I received during that return and my second mat leave, I’ve more recently been thinking about the ongoing need to support mums in the workplace.

You gotta fight, for your right, to party/parental leave

The PR and marketing industry is many things, but fast-paced and high pressure are some of the more accurate phrases I’d use to describe it.

I was nervous about returning to work in an agency, I needn’t have been…

Before I start - I want to share some context at the top of this piece. Firstly, I am no expert when it comes to neurodiversity or being a parent to a child with additional needs. My son is four and neurodivergent. To be honest I have been learning as I go and still am trying to navigate this journey.

When I was getting ready to return to work last year after having my first child, I felt many things - sad about leaving my daughter after a year of maternity leave, excited about being back in the agency I love, curious as to how things had moved on, but mostly pretty daunted.

This time last year the phrase ‘KIT days’ was simply a buzzword I’d heard in the office a few times. Nowadays, when I type the word ‘kit’ into my phone it automatically suggests ‘day’ and ‘days’ as the following, suggesting how often I use the phrase

Navigating the Sleep Struggle: A Working Mum's Journey to Well-Rested Bliss

There are tonnes of articles about returning to work after maternity leave or navigating the workplace after a long absence. But little is written about returning to work after having a child with SEND or how to navigate the workplace when you have an extra layer of caring responsibilities at home.

I’ve started this article many times over this year, under several different guises. I’ve discussed the work life balance. Lazy Girl Working. People with a side hustle. But it essentially boils down to the same thing – flexible working.

Leaving my job to become a mother was a shock to the system. For years, all I’d thought about was my career, my clients, my team. I worked as hard as I possibly could to climb the ladder - for no other reason than I wanted to earn as much money as I could. There, I said it - at the time, I equated success with salary.