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Returning to work after a prolonged absence? We can provide the right support and expertise to make your return work for you.

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You play a vital role in helping career-breakers in your team make a smooth, effective and happy return to work. Here’s how we can support you.

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When you go on maternity leave is it better to put

When you go on maternity leave is it better to put work completely to one side or keep in touch?
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We think on balance being in contact with work whilst away paves the way for a better return experience.
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In our latest article (see the link above) we’ve written about the mental health benefits of keeping in touch. We focus on three things that are key to mental wellbeing that we can keenly miss when we’re away from work:
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- Connection 👊
- Stimulation 💡
- Control 🧠
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Let’s remember that loneliness can creep up on new mothers and a card, a positive text or encouraging voice memo from her line manager can really make her day.✍️
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We’re running a FREE Q&A event with @mia.scotland (perinatal clinical psychologist, doula and author) on maternal mental health on Tuesday 25th May 8-8.45pm GMT. Tickets are open for booking now. Search for ‘Comeback Conversations’ on Eventbrite or see the link above.👆
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All are welcome and we’ll be donating £1 to @pandas_uk for every person who joins the session live on the night.👍
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If you’re struggling with helplessness, low mood, anxiety or have any concerns about your health
during or beyond your pregnancy you can call the PaNDAS Foundation every day 11am – 10pm: 0808
1961 776.📞😊
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#maternityleave #maternalmentalhealth #maternalmentalhealthawareness #perinatalmentalhealth #employeeexperience #talentkeeping #pregnant #onmaternityleave #returningtowork #backtowork #newmama #newmum #newbaby

As we come to the end of #maternalmentalhealthawar

As we come to the end of #maternalmentalhealthawareness week here’s a snippet from a special FUNDRAISER episode of our podcast “Comeback Coach.” (Thank you @rayden_solicitors for sponsoring it).
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Every listen = a donation from us to @pandas_uk.
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This is a clip of Mia Scotland, perinatal clinical psychologist, author and trained doula. Mia is also our guest at our next ‘Comeback Conversation’ (find out more on our sister channel @comebackcommuk) on maternal mental health Tuesday 25th May 8-8.45pm. Tickets are FREE.
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Two other terrific guests on the podcast:
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1) Eve Canavan @eviecanavan - cofounder of MMHA Week and @perinatalmhpartnership
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2) Anna Ceesay @annaceesay - founder of Motherdom Magazine @motherdom_mag.
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#maternalmentalhealth #perinatalmentalhealth #perinatatalmentalhealthmatters #newmum #newmama #newbaby #birth #pnd #mentalhealth #podcast #podcastersofinstagram

HUGE APPLAUSE for the women behind Maternal Mental

HUGE APPLAUSE for the women behind Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week UK. We spoke to one of them, Eve Canavan @eviecanavan for a SPECIAL FUNDRAISER episode of our podcast, Comeback Coach, to mark the week. Thank you to @rayden_solicitors for sponsoring this season 1 bonus episode. 🎧🎙🙏
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Today is the start of the fifth awareness week organised by @perinatalmhpartnership and we’re in awe of the work you do alongside your day jobs.⭐️👏🏻

We’ll be posting more on our sister channel @comebackcommuk – where we share resources for
people preparing for/returning from maternity and other long leaves from work.🤰
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Every download of this episode in May = a donation to PANDAS Foundation @pandas_uk.🙏
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As well as Eve, Jessica talks to:
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Anna Ceesay @annaceesay from @motherdom_mag – journalist and mother who experienced pre-
natal depression.
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Mia Scotland @mia.scotland – perinatal clinical psychologist, author of “Why Post Natal Depression
Matters” and “Birth Shock” and doula.
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On the episode:
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- Pre-natal depression
- What England’s new maternal mental health hubs should look like
- Doulas – who are they, why use one and how to choose her?
- Post-partum psychosis – what is it?
- How other cultures look after new mothers
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If you’re struggling with helplessness, low mood, anxiety or have any concerns about your health
during or beyond your pregnancy you can call the PaNDAS Foundation every day 11am – 10pm: 0808
1961 776.📞
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Find COMEBACK COACH podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify (and our website).
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#maternalmentalhealth #myjourneytorecovery #perinatalmentalhealth #maternalhealth #employeewellbeing #returningtowork #newparent #newmum #newmama #pnd #newbaby #doula #mentalhealthawareness

⠀ ⁉️ “I’m writing a piece about returnin

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⁉️ “I’m writing a piece about returning to work after maternity leave during a pandemic, can you help?” asked Mary Lou Costa. Of course!
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Always a pleasure to help journalists and it thrills us every time we see our name in print. Thank you for asking us Mary Lou for @stylistmagazine 😊
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Mary Lou featured pointers from our founder’s (Jessica Chivers @jhchivers) book, “Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work.” (Hay House, 2011).📚
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We include a copy of the book in all our maternity comeback programmes. It’s been described as “THE book employers should be giving all their women returners.” (psychologist and author, Professor Karen Pine).🙏
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It’s a blend of research, real women’s stories and Jessica’s experience of working with hundreds of women returning to work.🤰
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Eight helpful chapters with exercises and top tips:
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#1 Know your ideal work scenario
#2 Keep in touch and ask for what you want
#3 See your family as a team
#4 Find childcare that fits your family
#5 Get a grip on guilt
#6 Go for ‘good enough’ at home
#7 Prepare for a smooth return
#8 Do what it takes to thrive
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#pregnant #onmaternityleave #returntowork #maternityleave #careercomeback #adoptionleave #returningtowork #employeeexperience #talentkeeping #executivecoaching #comebackcoaching #talentretention #leadershipdevelopment #femaleleaders
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🎧⁉️ Have you listened to our podcast or sig

🎧⁉️ Have you listened to our podcast or signposted it to some riding the return-to-work rollercoaster, yet?

💡 The latest episode is with Fiona, someone who fits the mould of so many people we work with: talented, dynamic, ambitious, has so much she wants to do and feels frustrated by the inability to do it all in the timeframe she wants. So much she wants to give, create and achieve.
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👩‍🏫 Fiona is a chemistry teacher who’s just had her second daughter, Luna, who’s four months old. After her first daughter, Isla, she made what she describes as a downward step to the school she’s in now and that was to allow her to have the time with Isla she craved.
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🤰Fiona is currently on maternity leave and is grappling with how she can reconcile her desire for
professional stretch and challenge with the knowledge that she also wants to be very present in her daughters’ lives. We spend about 40 minutes together and a way forward emerges that Fiona seems to be energised by.
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Three key takeaways from this episode:
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1. Think of your life as a story – not everything has to go in chapter 1.👏🏻
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2. It isn’t failure, it’s experimentation.👏🏻
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3. It’s OK to try something, change your mind and go back or do something different.👏🏻
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#maternityleave #returntowork #careercoaching #careercomeback #comebackcoach #chemistryteacher #workingmama #onmaternityleave #returningtowork #careerdevelopment #ambition #ambitiouswomen #careerpodcast #podcastersofinstagram
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🤰Are you pregnant or know someone who is? Do yo

🤰Are you pregnant or know someone who is? Do you know of any dads getting ready for Shared Parental Leave? We know it’s a busy time for you and want to help you get ready and feel confident as you step away from your role.
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💡Our next FREE online ‘Comeback Conversation’ is on Tuesday 27th April 8-8.45pm GMT and we’re talking HOW TO PREPARE FOR LEAVE AS A LEADER.
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Our founder Jessica Chivers (coaching psychologist, author “Mothers Work!” and developer of @comebackcommuk) will be chatting with Cat Jones, CEO of @byway.travel and answering your Qs. Cat has experience of taking two maternity leaves whilst leading big teams.
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😊 Don’t lead a team? You’re still very welcome and we’ll be sharing ideas to help individual contributors get ready for leave too.
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👍Tickets are free via Eventbrite (search for ‘Comeback Conversations’ or see www.comebackcommunity.co.uk and click on ‘Conversations’) and you can send your Qs in when you book. We’ll pick three to answer on the night and then go into live Q&A.⁉️
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#maternityleave #sharedparentalleave #adoptionleave #talentkeeping #employeeexperience #talentretention #leadership #hr #careercoaching #extendedleave #comebackcoaching #comebackcommunity
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“I didn’t want to get sucked back into work so

“I didn’t want to get sucked back into work so I didn’t use KIT days,” is something we heard at a webinar we ran recently for a collection of London businesses @victoriabid keen to support their colleagues returning from maternity, shared parental and adoption leave.
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It’s such a shame she felt like that – and we understand why - because KIT days are a really useful tool for helping transition back into work.
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Our advice to HR and line managers (taken from a longer blog post on our site 👆):
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- ⭐️ If you want your staff to feel confident coming back into work after maternity leave, gently remind them of their value by inviting them into the (virtual) workplace several times during their time away.
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- ⭐️ Having contact with their line manager, their team and the wider organisation helps your employee ease back into the ‘mind space’ of work ahead of their full return. Ideas can start to percolate, so that when they are fully back with the team, they are raring to go and full of creative energy.
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- ⭐️ Plan early! When you know a member of staff will be going on maternity leave, start your discussions around KIT days. It might seem way ahead of time, but you’ll need to agree on how many KIT days will be taken, when and what they might be used for. Is it better than the days are taken as a chunk at the end of their leave, or dotted through the time away?
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- ⭐️ KIT days are not meant to be used for delivery. That is, you should not treat it as business as usual and give the employee a huge task which will take longer than one day to complete. A KIT day cannot be relied on or anchored to: it’s a transitional tool to help someone refocus on work, soak up the atmosphere, add ideas to a meeting or to provide information on their specialist subject.
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Like this? Read the rest on our website (click on ‘Articles’)👆
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If you’re preparing for leave or riding the return-to-work rollercoaster you might like to follow our sister account especially for you: @comebackcommuk 🙌
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#kitdays #maternityleave #hr #employeeexperience #employeesonleave #adoptionleave #sharedparentalleave #returntowork #returntoworkmums #talentretention #talentkeeping #citybusiness
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Wishing our clients, coachees, friends and followers around the globe an upbeat Easter Sunday #easter

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