A Different Kind of 2025 Recap

✨ My 2025 Wrapped ✨

(No charts. No rankings. Just the real highlights.)

✅ What I DID do in 2025:

🟢 Led an NIH-funded lab working to deepen our understanding of pediatric traumatic brain injury—so we can move toward more precise and equitable rehabilitation for children and their families. Alongside the most brilliant trainees and colleagues a scientist could ask for.

🟢 Partnered with 50+ scientist mothers through MOMENTUM, MotherMind Transform, and individual coaching engagements (and countless more inside The MotherMind Network), supporting them in kicking burnout and overworking to the curb and building lives and careers in which they thrive.

🟢 Had the honor of delivering 10 keynotes and peer coaching workshops at universities and women’s STEMM organizations across the country. (More of this in 2026, please! Reach out!)

🟢 Prioritized my own wellbeing and joy—intentionally and unapologetically. Dinner with friends most weeks. The gym 5–6 days per week. Singing in my community choir. Choosing the version of myself that feels more alive and more me.

🟢 Leaned into my love of travel and made good on my commitment to actually use my vacation time—six family trips and seven work and/or child-free trips. Barely slept on the family ones (including sleeping alone in the car one night last week for uninterrupted rest 🙃) and basked in the glory of every single quiet hotel night alone.

🟢 Mothered my two daughters in a way that feels good to me. Not perfectly—but (mostly) presently. Fiercely. Warmly. Enoughly.

Just as important as what I chose to do this year is what I consciously chose to let go of.

🛑 What I DIDN’T do in 2025:

🚫 Guilt. Mom guilt. Woman guilt. Any of it. I am done carrying society-created myths about how women and mothers should live—myths that keep us smaller, quieter, and more exhausted than necessary.

🚫 Attend every school event, join every parent board, or say yes to every volunteer request. Some seasons call for presence; others call for discernment.

🚫 Respond to every email or attend every meeting. Some things waited. Some didn’t happen. The world kept spinning.

🚫 Much laundry or cleaning. I have the privilege of paying for some help—and I choose to spend that reclaimed time elsewhere. Also paired with intentionally low expectations for a pristine, Pinterest-ready home.

🚫 Any of it perfectly. I made mistakes, learned from them, and practiced giving myself grace.

Curious what made it into your 2025 Wrapped—and what you’re leaving behind!