Because motherhood is not a side note. It’s not something you can switch off during business hours. It shapes how you move through the world, how you assess risk, how you respond to urgency, how you allocate energy. Asking mothers to be “professional” often means asking them to pretend a major part of their life doesn’t exist.

Somewhere along the way, resilience became the compliment working mothers are handed instead of real support.

There’s a moment most working mothers know well, even if they’ve never named it.

You close the door. You wipe your face. You take a breath. And you become someone else.