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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Maybe you look for a daycare update at lunchtime and then you put your phone away.
Constantly checking keeps your anxiety switched on all day.
Whereas one structured moment of reassurance lets you breathe and then be where you are.
Chat to your child care carers or whoever's looking after your child on that day and check in about their day.
When you know that they've had a good morning, they ate well, they've slept, it actually fills that blank space that I was talking about earlier.
Knowledge is genuinely calming.
And also give yourself a 90 plus day runway about the return to work.
I'd even say six months.
You are not supposed to be fully yourself at work in the first few weeks.
It's a crazy expectation.
Have an honest conversation with your manager early.
Let them know that you're in transition.
And trust me, this is one of my biggest things I want to change about this.
return to work, that is a transition.
It's doesn't physically you're there, but trust me, the mental and physical transition takes about, I would say, three to six months.
And also set realistic expectations in this period.
Most managers will appreciate you telling them rather than discovering it later.
I'm gonna close today by speaking to the mum who has dropped her baby off this morning and cried the whole drive-in.
Or if you're the one who's sitting at your desk right now, going through the motions, feeling like she's failing at everything because she's not fully anywhere.
I see you and I want you to hear this.
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