I'm going on maternity leave in ~3 weeks for 2nd baby. Trying to battle the rising panic of taking months out of work after a not very productive (academically speaking) year. My head knows that it will be fine, my anxiety is not listening! Anyone else been there?
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American academics wrote a book on this "The No Club" and Jun '22 did a webinar which you can watch now:
https://www.youtube.com/live/Ya5cjo7bGC8?feature=shared
need to normalise parental leaves and that one should not be expected to behyperproductivee around leaves. Tell your head it is correct :)
I think focussing on how productive you’ve been in comparison to previous times, to a period growing another human is extremely unfair on yourself.
But you’re valid and not alone in how you feel🙏🏼