Our last episode for this season will be an open Q&A. Send us your questions, ideas, puzzles and dilemmas by November 22, and we’ll fit in as many as we can for the December 2 episode!
There’s a lotta baggage around being someone’s partner, especially a wife, especially in science. These issues leak over into scicomm for many folks, whether you’re a ‘science wife’ or navigating some other kind of partnership.
This week, we tackle:
Dig in for yourself:
Take some time to yourself today, even just 5 minutes, to just be you.
[We know...this kind of assignment might feel like it’s for hoity toity people. But “taking 5 minutes for myself” could be just laying on the floor with the door shut against the kids, being unavailable for just a little while.
And making that time, just a little every day, can help us feel way more in control. More like we choose who we are and the role we play in the world.]
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