11. COMEBACK - Wendy - Coping with anxiety - crippling guilt - feeling out of control - seeking therapy and coping lessons
Episode description
WARNING: This episode includes very naughty words.
Wendy found herself feeling out of control, crying at work and sitting in a mental health seminar at work thinking “I’m not OK.”
Wendy Lancaster is a landscape planner and mother of two who experienced crippling levels of anxiety when she returned to work after her second maternity leave. Wendy works with developers and local authorities to protect the character of landscapes, built environments and important views. She’s often the lone woman in meetings with master planners, transport consultants, drainage engineers and ecologists. She has two children age 6 and 2 and says she’s married to a wonderful man who’s massively supportive of her career who has stepped back from his own to allow Wendy to focus on hers.
It’s a really honest conversation about how out of control she felt when she first went back to work and why she decided to see a therapist.
I hope it’s useful.
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