Second Bloom – Motherhood and Beyond ~ What’s Next?
Are you a mother nearing the end of active child-raising years, wondering what’s next and how you get there?
Maybe you’ve been homeschooling kids for years and you’re transitioning to a new chapter in your life, personally and professionally.
Are you a mother of younger children, still committed to your caregiving role, but wondering how you’ll return to, or enter, the working world one day? Maybe you’re concerned you’ll be at a loss or disadvantage because of your child-raising years.
Maybe you’re a person, regardless of life stage or roles, who likes personal stories and memoirs of change, transition, growth and stepping into new seasons of life.
I wanted to let you know about a project I am involved in this month.
Second Bloom is a series of conversations hosted and produced by Renee Tougas, conversations with eight women (one of them Yours Truly) around the theme of transitioning to careers and vocations after life seasons of full-time mothering, homeschooling, and homemaking.
I was asked to participate because of my own transition from homeschooling mom into the work I do now.
I was interviewed along with seven other extraordinary ordinary women who have transitioned from homemaking and child-raising careers into training programs, bachelors, and masters degrees; women working in corporate professions, universities, and small businesses; writers, students, guides, helpers, musicians, designers, administrators, managers and healers.
Mothers with kids still at home and actively parenting tweens, teens and young adults. Mothers who have long launched birds from the nest. Mothers who homeschooled for a good portion of their children’s education, and some that didn’t at all. Mothers of two or three, or five or six children. Grandmothers.
All women with a strong commitment to that first career of homemaking and child raising, who have experienced or are experiencing a Second Bloom in midlife.
I am so excited to be a part of this project.
What can we learn together from the life experience and wisdom of women’s stories
You can listen to my segment, where Renee interviews me about my journey, struggles and triumphs here:
To find out how you can listen to all eight of these conversations go to: