Carina O’Brien
speaker
1,722 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Carina O’Brien’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 4.
Appearances
It's quite subtle.
It's very, very personal.
It's checking your phone to see if childcare has sent a photo or the person has been caring for your child.
It's a meeting that feels slightly unreal because somewhere in the back of your mind you drift off away from the conversation and you're wondering whether they've had their nap.
How did they go at eating their lunch?
Have they had a poo or a wee explosion?
How did they go down?
Did they self settle or was it a struggle?
It's a low hum of not quite being there at work or at home.
Because you're trying to exist in two places at once.
Your mind is in two places at once.
Then on top of all that comes the guilt.
That good old mum guilt rears its ugly head.
the guilt for going back to work, the guilt for not being fully present at work.
Guilt for the days where honestly part of you was a tiny bit relieved to have five minutes to drink a hot coffee in peace.
Then there's also guilt about the guilt.
Sound familiar?
I certainly went through this.
What you're experiencing has a name.
Yes, we can put it in a little box.
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