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Hi, I'm Monica Packer, and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about progress

made practical.

The day before this episode airs, my toddler turns two years old.

Now, you probably think that I have talked about this caboose baby a lot and about the big

transition his little life brought to me and to my family.

You probably think I've talked about it too much because I've so often alluded to the shock

adding this child brought to every level of my life, hurtling me into what I often refer to as my survival year. I've actually been

quite cognizant of just how often I bring this year up from the podcast to post on

Instagram to other podcasts I've guessed it on. But despite trying not to talk about it every second,

I find it breaking through all the time. And I guess I'm done feeling embarrassed about it.

Because that year, while so very challenging, was also incredibly refining and edifying of the work I have spent years creating.

Everything I had learned up to that point was being challenged.

The most basic of questions I had helped women answer for years were now the ones I had in front of me

again. Who am I? Who am I if my capacity dramatically changes overnight? Who am I when my

season shifts? Who am I when my typical outcomes disappear? Who am I if I can't support myself in the same way because my time and

my energy is even more limited. Tudging through my own year of struggle and self-questioning was

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