A reader asks: How Do I Lean Out?

“Since forever, the 50,000 dollar question for mothers has been something like: how do you make it all work? Just recently Freya, a 21-year-old American reader, wrote to me asking for my advice on planning her own life – and also on how to persuade friends and family that her lack of interest in the girlboss life doesn’t mean she’s wasting her education.

How, Freya asks, should she think about work and professional development knowing she wants to be a mother, and ideally to raise kids at home herself?”

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