Carina O’Brien

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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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Working Mumma · Why Don't I Feel Like Me Anymore? Matrescence, Identity & Returning to Work with Amanda Jackson · 26 May 2026 podcast

Through this who am I? voice-verified

questioning and reflection and when you realize and they're going, Why have I changed? voice-verified

Why am I feeling so different? voice-verified

But then really in turn, they've gone through this matrescence journey and then going, Okay, who am I? voice-verified

And it now then it rather than probably maybe six to twelve months down the track, they're going, Who am I? voice-verified

I've got this identity shift as I go back into workplace. voice-verified

So what can women do that are going through that journey to go, Okay, as you say, that support back as well from employers as women are transitioning because they aren't the same person. voice-verified

Yeah, there's certainly there's certainly so much in that as well because so much of societal expectations that we have of what an I say as well in verticomas should be doing and which has really built up over hundreds of years of, you know, the woman's role traditionally was about being a mother and being childbearing and the like, whereas now voice-verified

I think it's seventy eight percent of Australian parents actually live in a dual income household. voice-verified

So it's only natural that, you know, probably four out of five mums will actually go back to work at some stage. voice-verified

So that does change it around and voice-verified

As you were saying earlier, around that invisible load, there's a lot of women that do experience burnout also going, Oh my goodness, how can I do that? voice-verified

Because of A, those societal expectations, as you say, but also then B, the invisible load of all the work that they've been doing p or even also been adding on to whilst they've been on parental leave and now they're going back to work going, How am I gonna do all this? voice-verified

If we were going to go through that reflection process as what you said, it's really important. voice-verified

What would be some steps or some things that we could do to actually go, Okay, I'm gonna step back and reflect about my matrescence journey. voice-verified

What would we do? voice-verified

great question voice-verified

I think they're actually two really powerful questions to actually reflect on where it what kind of mum do I want to be and and what I thought I would be and and where are you at? voice-verified

I think they are voice-verified

Very probably when you first think about it, yeah, they're a simple question, but there is so much that even as you're saying that I'm going ping ping ping of all the things even in my own head. voice-verified

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