This week, I’m recording from my bed, feeling that familiar end-of-day heaviness where you’ve done a lot but couldn’t neatly list what it was.

Life doesn’t feel chaotic.
It just doesn’t feel spacious either.

In this episode, I talk about what a maintenance season actually looks like in motherhood, especially after separation, when logistics increase and capacity doesn’t.

Waking at 5am when it works, not forcing it when it doesn’t.
Batch cooking to reduce decisions.
Letting non-urgent emails sit.
Filling out government forms in fragments.
Choosing structure over spontaneity.

Not because ambition has disappeared.
But because time and energy are finite.

We talk about:

• The difference between growth seasons and maintenance seasons
• How separation quietly increases admin, responsibility and mental load
• Why structure can feel stabilising instead of restrictive
• The pressure to advance or reinvent
• Maintenance as consolidation rather than stagnation

This episode sits in time and energy debt, with a quiet thread of identity shift underneath.

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