Award-winning journalist and mom-of-three Paula Faris gives insightful and practical steps for Better working, momming, and living to millions of overwhelmed working moms.
And there are literally no hands more capable than ours!.
Besides, we\'ve got working moms on this job.
The problems we Have as a country and culture are not insurmountable.
She also gathers insightful and actionable steps toward a Better way of working, momming, and living.
Through the lens of her personal experience and interviews with working women, men, leaders, and experts across the country, Faris dismantles the cultural expectations and toxic traps that American moms experience.
Paula Faris offers a declaration of hope to all working moms-- things are going to get better! There is another way Forward that frees us from the barbaric conflict of mom-Guilt and the bone-weary exhaustion of carrying it all and feeling like we\'re failing everywhere.
Because moms are superheroes with superpowers! But at some point, our shoulders grow tired tired from carrying around the expectations and the mental load, tired from juggling the constant conflict between working and momming, tired of how our work-- whether at home or at the office--isn\'t valued equally, and tired of workplaces that treat us like risks instead of assets.
We try to Carry it all--and we can.
We pick up responsibilities wherever we go-- on the job, at home, in our communities.
We believed we could Have it all-- fulfilling work, and a healthy and happy family.
American moms are more burned out now than at any other time in history.
Instead, it is a thankless, incredibly difficult job, marked by impossible contradictions and unreachable expectations.
Being a working mom should work.
Award-winning journalist and mom-of-three Paula Faris gives insightful and practical steps for Better working, momming, and living to millions of overwhelmed working moms
