Tips for the transition from "work-mode" to "family-mode"

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I remember hearing psychologist Pat Allen talk about how when a woman is at work you're in masculine mode, and it literally takes 30 minutes back into feminine. Sometimes when I've counseled couples, I've talked to the man. I've said, you know, if you would give your wife or your partner, whomever, she comes home from work, she's in all this crazy stress. You want her to come home, take care of the kids, get dinner ready, and all of this stuff. And later she's supposed to be this goddess in bed. You take the kids, I'll say. Just try this. Say to the kids. You know what mommy needs. Take the kids. We're going to go be outside. Hello! that's what people used to do before dinner. Like, outside, basketball hoops, take a walk. And we're going to let your mom have her goddess time. So that that woman can retrieve her true self.

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Marianne Williamson, Author & Lecturer discuss how it can take a woman 30 minutes to transition from masculine, work-mode, to feminine, family mode and shares tips to help facilitate the transition for women

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Marianne Williamson

Author & Lecturer

Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer. Six of her ten published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1 New York Times Best Sellers. A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality. A paragraph from that book, beginning "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure..." is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers. Marianne's other books include The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman's Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America, A Course in Weight Loss, and The Gift of Change. Her newest book, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money and Miracles, was published in November 2012 by Harper Collins. She has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America and Charlie Rose. Marianne is a native of Houston, Texas. In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. Today, Project Angel Food serves over 1,000 people daily. Marianne also founded the Department of Peace Campaign, a grass roots campaign to establish a United States Department of Peace. In December 2006, a NEWSWEEK magazine poll named Marianne Williamson one of the fifty most influential baby boomers. According to Time magazine, "Yoga, the Cabala and Marianne Williamson have been taken up by those seeking a relationship with God that is not strictly tethered to Christianity."