Burnout
You come back to a codebase that moved on, a team that reorganized twice, and a calendar built for someone with no daycare pickup. The temptation is to prove you are the same person you were. You are not, and that is the useful fact.
Six sessions across the first three months. We start with the week as it actually is now, including the hours that belong to a small person, and design the work week inside that instead of around it. Then the conversations: with your manager about scope, with the team about what you are picking back up, and with yourself about the promotion cycle you might sit out on purpose.
People leave with a role that fits the life, written down, and with the fear that they have fallen behind replaced by a list of what they have actually decided not to do.
