Women Today

There is a picture on my office wall with a verse that says, “Change is not only inevitable, it is essential to survival. Why fear it or fight it when you can simply embrace it?”

I returned by to work this week after an 8-week maternity leave. I cried my first morning back. I did this for the most obvious reasons; missing my son, but also for a not so obvious reason as well: Change.

I knew things were going to be different. I even looked forward to it, however, when the time came for the change I was really scared. For a brief moment I didn’t want the change any more. I wanted what was familiar and comfortable. I wanted to go home.

I could have turned around and went home, just like anyone can run and hide from future changes in your lives. But what does that really accomplish? It doesn’t stop change from occurring.

No matter where we are in our lives change is always there. Give yourself time to adjust.

Reaching out for support, talking to trusted loved ones, acknowledging your own feelings and accepting them for what they truly are and not what we had hoped them to be helps ease this process.

I write this on day four of the work week, and although it is a struggle and I am still scared of the new change, I am embracing it one day at a time.

Feel free to share with me your experiences with change and how you embrace it.

Warmly,

Brenda