Recently, I took part in a 3-day teleseminar called “MBA – Moms Business Advisor.” I was fortunate enough to meet Christine Conners, the author of “From High Heels to Bunny Slippers – Surviving the Transition From Career to Home.” Christine has 4 children, is a college professor with a PhD, a psychotherapist, and author!
“Psychotherapist, mother, and author Christine Conners never doubts that the decision of a professional woman to stay home with her young children is the right one. In From High Heels to Bunny Slippers, she supports their decision to personally care for their children with compelling new research on childcare and its potential negative effects on young children, as well as her own firsthand experience as a co-founder of the NASA child development centers. Unlike previous books aimed at this growing readership, Conners recognizes and addresses mothers’ adjustment problems that, like any major life event, arise from the decision to quit your job and stay home.
She offers tools and strategies that gently lead the professional woman from the challenge of her work world into the new challenges of parenting full-time. She sympathizes, as a stay-at-home mother herself, with the immediate frustrations of loss of personal identity, financial difficulties, depression, and marital discord. As a mental health professional, she offers her proven techniques for forming a strong new identity as a parent when you leave your career, for addressing financial woes through part-time work and money-saving strategies, for overcoming social isolation, depression, anger, and stress, and for finding personal fulfillment during this special time with your young children.”
I can totally relate to this. I never intended to stay at home with my children; I was going to be a career woman. But once I had that baby in my arms, everything changed. It was a situation where I wanted to be the one to raise my kids, but I also missed having an identity and a connection to the working world.
Her book was chosen as the book of the week on the Dr. Laura show in 2006. Visit Christine’s website for more information.
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