Lauren Wilde

The hardcover set of the Inward Trilogy is available through the link! I remember when I first started writing Inward when I lived in Brooklyn back in 2015. I would have never imagined this handful of lessons that I was learning and reflecting on would turn into a trilogy that has sold over 1.3 million copies worldwide. The Inward Trilogy is the name I gave to my three poetry and prose books (Inward, Clarity & Connection and The Way Forward) because they really function as one message. Over the years I’ve heard some tremendously inspiring personal stories from you about the different ways these books have helped. At the first event I did I remember someone telling me how Inward helped them through their divorce. Once when I was in San Francisco someone told me that Inward and Clarity & Connection helped save their life. I remember someone in London telling me that Inward had helped her so much that she gave copies to all her friends and family. I had no idea all of this would happen. I’m glad I listened to my intuition when it signaled that I should reflect openly about the things I was processing from meditation. The thing I’m most happy about is that these books have served you well. I hope you enjoy the hardcover version of the Inward Trilogy. Holding them in my hand feels surreal! Sending much love to all 🙏🏽☀️ The Inward Trilogy Hardcover set is available at Amazon, Target, Bookshop, Walmart and soon it will be available in bookstores. #journey #growth

Too often women on career pause feel counted out of the conversation about the balancing act. Take this as your sign your work is immense and you deserve to be included in conversations about how to better support mothers. Source: Salary.com and further research and insight can be found here — https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-economists-stay-home-moms-130001098.html Additional note: this is not to suggest women working out of the home aren’t ALSO doing immense work. This platform is specifically here to change the narrative around stay at home motherhood in America and as such this post is specific to our community of women on career breaks but we truly believe every mother works and every mother mothers even if the day to day and some of the challenges are different.

There’s a difference. For 7 years we’ve been championing an updated narrative about the modern “stay-at-home mom” to move past the caricatures from generations ago. Modern women on career pauses or downshifts to make room for the complicated, immense work of family life today have accrued more education and more work experience before motherhood, we have equitable relationships with partners with this generation of dads spending 3x the amount of time with children, we have access to digital landscape for flex work, education and ongoing growth and connection. And it’s imperative we update the perception so women choosing to pause or downshift aren’t counted out as giving up on ambition or expected to meet an ideology of doing it all on their own in the home. But lastly, we are finally at a moment where we are reexamining work and family and embracing a more nuanced fluid view that stands to unite women. Let’s not go backward and equate a decision to pause or shift for unique family needs with defending tradition. That’s what divided us generations ago and we have so much to gain by staying together.

Game on, @buttkicker7 — not what I had planned to announce the pre-orders for THE POWER PAUSE but here we are. I will not let you own the dialogue about modern stay at home motherhood. We’ve worked too hard and we’ve come too far. As someone who has spent eight years singularly focused on updating the perception of stay-at-home motherhood so modern women can face less shame and get more support, here’s what I have to say about Harrison Butker’s remarks. I will not let him set us back to an old-fashioned archetype wherein women who lean into family life for a chapter are defending tradition or giving up on their dreams. The reality of modern women on career pauses for caregiving is that they have accrued work experience before having children, they have equitable relationships with their partners, they have access to digital tools, the gig economy, and community to keep them learning and creating, and the day to day of caregiving adds to their perspective and leadership skills. And 90% aim to return to the workforce in a meaningful way that works for them. And they deserve to do so with confidence. So, I will not let this man upend the work of a movement of ambitious women with the lived experience of pausing their careers and growing alongside their families. We are still modern. We are still ambitious. We are still growing. We will not be counted out. And yes, pre-orders are now available at www.motheruntitled.com/thepowerpause or the link in bio or IG Stories. Every pre-order helps tell the world it’s time to reshape our perception of career pauses as one powerful part of a long game of work and life. It’s time. And we have to own the story — not him.