A 43-year-old mother realized her kids were copying her exhaustion and limits, so she moved, restructured her businesses for remote work, and quit the identities of "Vicky the pharmacist" and "Vicky the dentist." Now she spends time on jiu-jitsu, art, and piano with them, treating parenting as her real career.
Chapters
Your kids are watching what you tolerate, and you wake up one day as a parent— me as a mom, I woke up and I thought, this is not living. I'm not enjoying my life, not enjoying my kids. I'm exhausted after school seeing them. We don't have much time together, and all I'm doing is cooking, Peter's cleaning, and then we put them to bed, showers and bed. And that's not the life. So we chose to change it, made the decision, moved away from our home to a new home, and are living a very different life. Still finding our feet 3 weeks in. It's It is massive and it took a while to plan. I wanted to move from months ago. We've just had to put some things in place like organize our businesses, organize our team being able to work remotely and really plan forward so that we could be there for our kids particularly where I decided I wasn't going to be defined by my degrees and just like I really detached from this Vicky the pharmacist, I'm now detached from Vicky the dentist. I'm me. So I'm figuring out as a 43-year-old woman who I am, what I love, reconnecting with my creative side because my logical brain has taken over for many, many years. And I get to hang out with my kids, jiu-jitsu, art sessions, piano, you name it. And the world's my oyster and the world's their oyster. So I know their strengths and I'm figuring them out as humans too. I'm not a silly person, I'm super intelligent. And I think that's why many people get really hesitant to think, well, why would she give up her career? My kids are my freaking career. What career are you talking about?
