September, Roles, and the Five-Minute Ritual That Helps You Find Yourself Again
September has a way of arriving with a clipboard.
Suddenly, everyone needs something. Children need lunches, schedules, permission forms, and approximately 400 water bottles. Work picks up. Routines return. Expectations become louder. You may find yourself moving from role to role—parent, partner, professional, caregiver, organizer, responsible adult with a functioning calendar—without much time to ask a fairly important question:
How am I doing? And who am I underneath all these roles?