Why September Can Make You Feel Like You're Falling Behind

There is a real shift in September.

I actually think, in my opinion, it's more of a back-to-school New Year feeling than even New Year can feel at times because we've had this extended sort of period where even when we've been at work...

It's felt different, right? Kids are off school.

There's a slightly different rhythm.

We sit in the garden if we're lucky enough to do that.

We've had a slightly different rhythm about our life.

That's what I tend to find.

And then, bam, September comes.

It can hit you like a train.

And there's a lot going on.

Everything's back to normal.

And there's this shift of like, we are in a new start.

You get your new diary if you're that kind of person.

You get back to routine.

Even if you've worked all the way through the summer, I think it just feels different.

Email traffic's a bit slower in the summer.

Everything's a little bit slower.

And when we go back to this school moment, it's this confrontation again that life is moving on.

And maybe nothing's changing for us.

So it can act as a real provocation for a lot of women who I know are a lot of the people who listen to this podcast and men too.

It can act as this provocation that my kids are going back to school.

They're going into another year and everything is the same for me.

And that could be a good thing, but it could also be nothing's changed for me.

I thought my life would look different to this.

The schoolroom returns and everything else goes back to as it was.