Daily Reflection Journal

A director at a mid-size tech company returns from six months of parental leave to find her team restructured, her peer group changed, and her own professional identity feeling slightly foreign. She says she used to know who she was at work, and now she is not sure that person exists anymore. She has been back for three weeks and is still waiting to feel like herself again.

Frame this as a re-entry tool, not a journaling practice. 'You're describing a gap between who you were before leave and...