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**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**
**The People's Book Prize Longlisted Title 2024/25**
When a working woman becomes a mother, she faces what can seem like an impossible dilemma: how can she continue to excel at work AND be a good mum? In the light of childcare costs, does it even make sense for many women to continue to work at all?
Workplaces need women. And most women want to work – not just for financial security but for personal fulfilment and because their work can often be a key part of their identity.
Working Mother offers simple, practical tools for each stage of this complex but rewarding life change, allowing you to become the coach you need by your side every step of the way.
A must-have resource for expecting or new working moms.' - Library Journal
Full of useful and thought provoking reflection exercises, alongside real-life stories and helpful suggestions. Empathy oozes from the pages - acknowledgement of the challenges, a sense of solidarity and unwavering support. I’d highly recommend this to anyone who is about to become (or has recently become) a working parent. - Amazon 5*
An absolute must read for working parents. The tools for self coaching are fantastic, simple and leave you feeling reassured. I loved this book! - Amazon 5*
This is a book that every organisation should be giving all employees who become parents. This book is a practical guide in helping women not only survive but thrive. - Amazon 5*
Rachel Morris is a professional accredited business coach with nearly 20 years of coaching experience working with a wide range of global professionals. She is also a working mother of two young children just over a year apart.
She has developed a set of tried and tested coaching tools based on decades of working with hundreds of working parents to help any new working mum reconcile the competing demands of their two worlds: work and family.
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Table of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part one: Your essential strategies
- 1: Endings
- 2: Fear
- 3: Learning
- 4: Control
- Part two: Strategies for taking care of yourself
- 5: Self-care
- 6: Boundaries
- Part three: Strategies for reconnecting with yourself
- 7: Values
- 8: Strengths
- 9: Motivation
- Part four: Strategies for working with others
- 10: Effectiveness
- 11: Communication
- Part five: Strategies for managing milestones
- 12: Handing over for maternity leave
- 13: Planning your return to work
- 14: Navigating your first few months back
- Part six: Strategies for planning your future
- 15: Your future
- 16: Your support network
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- About the author
- Index