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Welcome to our Library - a rich bank of online content updated weekly. Browse our collection of Guides and Expert Articles, listen to our Podcast series discussing views and perspectives from both experts and those with lived experience, and our popular Blog series where members share their experiences of balancing work and home.

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Caroline's blog: Stars in their Eyes

Does anyone else’s life sometimes feel like an episode of Stars in their Eyes?  ...

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Ellen's blog: All About Me

Last Friday my 4-year-old returned from school with a note in his bag to say that from the f...

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Sisieta's blog: New Territory

So I’m no longer phased by the logistics of juggling home life with a city career (with ...

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Hayley's blog: It's ok to want to go back.

I'm looking forward to going back to work. I have to keep telling myself ...

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Gemma's blog: The house of sickness...

Before I had my daughter I was never ill, in fact it was like my badge of honour, cough or sn...

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Lawrence's blog: The Twin Reaction

After being a parent for nearly four years, my wife and I feel like we are no-longer complete ...

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Dolly's blog: Role Models

I inadvertently re-read my 2015 appraisal the other day - the last in my old role. God I was m...

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Rosies blog: Transformations

The maintenance of the resolutions made on December 31 st can at this time start to seem toug...

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Maria's blog: 8 going on 18

My daughter is 8 years old, but, as I am sure many other parents experience, they grow up far ...

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Freddy's blog: New Year resolutions

Happy New Year to all you WorkLife Central. It seems a lot of people were back to work after ...

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Helen's blog: The business of sleep

In an earlier blog, I shared my resolutions to adopt a little of our daughter’s natural ...

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Ellen's blog: Feedback loop

It is the time of year when my employer conducts the annual appraisal process. Having been a c...

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Julia's blog: Coping with change

I have come to the conclusion that I need to take lessons from my children in coping with chan...

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Gemma's blog: How do I channel Elsa and just let it go……?

In 2015 I started maternity leave on top of the world. I was a senior manager, high performer,...

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Rebecca's blog: The Wobble

As a full-time lawyer at a city firm, I had a little ‘wobble’ recently over whethe...

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James's blog: Two new jobs

It's been a while since my last blog. Since then, and after a few years of searching fo...

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Sisieta's blog: It's a Revolution

No this isn’t a remix/lyrics to the song by Diplo from the “Monsters in my head&rd...

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Dolly's blog: All change.

"September may normally be the season of mellow fruitfulness and a nice new coat, but thi...

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Rosie's blog: Changing seasons

These early months of autumn have seen some fairly seismic changes in family life. The new ter...

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Maria's blog: Work life balance and single parenting

I often hear that to achieve work life balance you must ‘make your partner a true partne...

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Freddy's blog: The right amount of protection

It’s a brutal place, the City. I saw a guy crossing the street the second the lights tur...

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Shruti's blog: Mumpreneurs

When I went on my first maternity leave, I was wildly optimistic about all of the spare time t...

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Helen's blog: Musings on being a stepparent

Last week was Alternative Family Week ( http://www.alternativeparenting.co.uk/alternative-fam...

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Ellen's blog: Change and the difficulty of managing uncertainty

Today I cried at work. It’s been a very challenging week, with a huge amount of change i...

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