Welcome to The Modern Workweek
What started as my personal blog to capture insights and tips on the lengthy process of divorce has become a knowledge bank of everything I’ve learned along the way about relationships, breakups, coparenting, building a new career, and the art of reinvention as a single mother. I’m a very methodical note-taker, what can I say?
What chapter of life are you in right now?
Divorce Recovery
Breakup Recovery
The 3 Most Important Pieces of Divorce Advice
Your Guide to Surviving the First 3 Days of a Breakup
Single Mother Reinvention
Self-care
How to Build a Community Around You
What to do When You’re Feeling Unsettled
Career + Workweek Redesign
Dating After 40
Everything I Learned Along the Way
This is a blog about reinvention. Divorce is part of that story, but divorce doesn’t happen in a vacuum. I write about the parts of life that are often affected along the way — self-care, healing, returning to work, rebuilding routines, dating again, and figuring out what comes next.
When I meet someone who is going through a major life change, my first question is always, “How are you feeling?” I start there because although divorce and separation are often framed as negative experiences, I know that for some people they can also be the beginning of something new. I try to listen carefully to how someone sees their own experience and avoid imposing my own biases onto it.
That same approach shapes the writing and ideas I share here. I don’t know whether you were the one who wanted the divorce, whether you were blindsided by the decision of your ex, or whether you are simply in the middle of a season of change. What I hope this blog gives you is a home base you can return to whenever you are wondering how the process might unfold and how to move forward with more clarity.
Beyond that, I hope you find support here as you emerge from one chapter and step into the next part of your story.
Take what feels relevant. Leave the rest.
“I was lucky to have a ‘divorce mentor’…I don’t know if you have that person, but if you didn’t before, now you do”
- Laura
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When I was planning to start my career again after my divorce, I had a lot of apprehensions about whether I would be accepted. I felt like I was too far behind in experience, that I’d be caught out as being wholly unprepared to keep up with professional life…