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The empty passenger seat

On the strange quiet after the last school run, and what to do with it.

Written by Michelle

A cardigan left on an empty passenger seat

Nobody warns you that the freedom you wanted for years will feel, at first, like being laid off from the most important job you ever had.

Here is what helped me: I put myself in the calendar the way I used to put everyone else. Same time, every day, non-negotiable. It started as twenty minutes on a mat.

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