Here are some tips if you are planning your transition back to work from family leave and/or if have colleagues or friends coming back to work after a huge life transition.

I encourage you to evaluate when you last took a break — not a vacation, or the break you may get during a holiday, or maternity leave (because we know maternity leave is not a holiday) — but an actual break.

It’s really easy for self-doubt, internalization of negative thoughts about oneself, and low confidence to seep in when you’ve worked so hard only to be met with mediocracy. But there are things that will bolster that confidence back where it deserves to be: THROUGH. THE. ROOF!

I know that black women are magic and we set the tone for all that’s dope, but I strongly believe that we weren’t placed on this earth to be your emotional mules or provide unpaid labor.

Oprah is collecting names like Arya Stark, and I’m right behind her ass.

I really wish I had something nice to say about this man, but I don’t. He’s literally the worst