The Edit - Ease the Mental Load

You are not overwhelmed because you are doing it wrong.

You are overwhelmed because you are carrying a list no one else can see.

The summer camp research. The new clothes because they grew again. The teacher’s email about the permission slip. The wellness checks for pediatrics and the dentist. The birthday gifts. The calendar that only exists in your head.

None of that appears on any shared list. Nobody gave it to you. You just became the one who tracks it. The default parent. The first responder to every question, every schedule, every decision in the house. And you do all of this alongside your job and everything else you show up for every day. And somehow you keep it all from falling apart.

But there is a cost. The real exhaustion is not the tasks you can see. It is the awareness of everything that needs to be done that no one else carries. You can be successful by every external measure and still feel like you are running a version of your life you did not fully choose.

What The Edit is

The Edit is a 90-minute evening for working mothers who are done carrying it alone and ready to put something down.

This is a room where real things get said out loud. Where you hear another woman name exactly what you have been feeling. Where you leave with something you can actually use the next morning. Not a workshop. Not a networking event. A room of women who get it.

This is the first event of many to come. The topic is the mental load. Not the tasks you can see, but the awareness of everything that needs to be done that lives only in your head.

What happens on the evening

You will sit with a small group of women you probably do not know yet. You will spend the first part of the evening writing down what you are carrying. All of it, on paper, maybe for the first time.

Then you will talk, in a small group, with questions that go somewhere real. Most women leave that conversation having said something they have never said out loud before.

Andi will share a simple framework: two insights and one tool you can use the next time something tries to land in your lap.

You will close the evening by making one real, specific commitment. One thing. Named. Yours. There is also a closing ritual, and informal time to stay and keep talking.

What you leave with

• Language for the thing that has been exhausting you but that you could not name
• Clarity on what is actually yours to carry and what is not
• One specific, doable change written down, witnessed, with a date
• A tool you can use the next time the load tries to expand
• A room of women who understand what you came in carrying

This evening is for you if

• You feel like the only one who sees the full picture at home
• You are capable, reliable, and quietly exhausted
• You have tried the systems and they have not fixed the deeper thing
• You cannot remember the last time you did something that had nothing to do with your roles
• You sometimes think: "I do not even know what life could look like outside of this fog"

The practical details

📅 Thursday, April 16th | 7:00pm to 8:30pm

📍 Snack Bar, 520 Adams St, Hoboken, NJ

🎫 Early Bird: $40 (before March 30) · After March 30: $50

🍷 Each ticket includes a cocktail or glass of wine of your choice

Doors open 10 minutes before start. Space is limited to 30 women per session.

The Edit runs quarterly, each time a different topic. Register for this one and you will be the first to know about the next. If you can't make it to this one but you want to stay in the know follow us on Eventbrite or contact us -> [email protected]

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