National Working Moms Day: A Leadership Coaching Case Study

By Kimberly Jarena

Intuitive Leadership Coach & Astro-Numerology Practitioner

Founder & CEO, Healthy Clarity by Kimberly Jarena | Kimberly Jarena LLC

A leadership coaching session with a working mom navigating career & family.

Working mothers in leadership roles often carry two kinds of responsibility at the same time. They are responsible for important decisions at work while also carrying deep responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of their families.

This dual responsibility can create pressure that feels overwhelming, especially when multiple life events happen at once. Recently, a client reached out to me during a season when several areas of her life were colliding at the same time. She is a working mother in a high-responsibility professional role, and she scheduled a coaching session because she wanted clarity.

Not just about what was happening around her but about how to respond without losing her sense of balance.

The Situation

Within a short period of time, several stressful events happened at once:

• a professional review involving sensitive information

• a house fire connected to a parent’s home

• concerns about important family documents

• the emotional pressure of protecting both her career and her family

Like many working mothers in leadership roles, her first reaction was not fear for herself.

Her first reaction was responsibility. She asked me a question I hear often in leadership coaching:

“Did I miss something? Did I somehow cause this?”

The Healthy Clarity Leadership Signals Model™

In my work, I use what I call the Healthy Clarity Leadership Signals Model™. This framework grew out of patterns I observed over many years working with people in high-responsibility environments.

During my 25-year career in the U.S. Air Force, including more than a decade working as a military resilience professional supporting leaders and teams, I repeatedly saw how emotional signals appeared during moments of pressure, uncertainty, and decision-making.

Those same patterns now appear in my coaching work with leaders navigating complex professional and personal responsibilities. Across these environments, including military leadership, resilience practice, and intuitive coaching, I began to notice something consistent:

Leaders experience emotional signals before burnout, conflict, or misalignment occurs.

The Healthy Clarity Leadership Signals Model™ helps leaders recognize and interpret those signals before reacting to pressure. Leadership signals often appear as:

• Overwhelm

• Frustration

• Stress

• Discomfort

• Flow

These signals are not problems. They are information. They invite leaders to pause long enough to interpret what their experience may be communicating.

The Healthy Clarity Leadership Signals Model™: A framework for interpreting emotional signals before they become burnout, conflict, or misalignment.

Interpreting the Signals

During our session, we slowed down and explored what her emotional signals might be pointing toward. Instead of assuming blame or reacting from anxiety, we stepped back and looked at the larger patterns surrounding the situation.

Together we explored:

• her current numerology cycle and what phase of life it represented

• the astrological houses connected to family, confidentiality, and institutional processes

• the timing patterns influencing those areas

What emerged from that conversation was very different from the story her stress had initially created. The patterns did not point to personal fault. They pointed to structure.

Family matters were activating the home and ancestry areas of her life. Professional processes were connected to confidentiality and institutional systems and the larger picture suggested that safeguards were already in place.

The Breakthrough Moment

As we talked through the signals she had been experiencing, the pressure she had been placing on herself began to shift. Her realization was simple but powerful:

“I don’t have to carry responsibility for every event that happens around me.”

Once that shift occurred, her next steps became clearer. Instead of reacting from fear, she could focus on:

• answering questions honestly

• allowing professional processes to unfold

• supporting her family without assuming fault

Her emotional signals had not been warning her that something was wrong. They were inviting her to pause long enough to see the situation clearly.

Why This Matters for Working Mothers in Leadership

Many women in leadership roles carry a silent belief that they must hold everything together.

Career.

Family.

Safety.

Stability.

However, leadership is not about controlling every outcome. Leadership is about recognizing signals, interpreting them wisely, and responding with clarity.

The Healthy Clarity Leadership Signals Model™ helps leaders slow down long enough to interpret what their internal signals are communicating so they can make aligned decisions rather than reactive ones.

During Women’s History Month, and especially on National Working Moms Day, I am grateful for the women who trust me to walk through these moments with them.

Leadership requires courage. Sometimes the most powerful leadership move is simply creating space for clarity.

If you are navigating a season where leadership responsibilities and personal life feel heavy at the same time, you do not have to interpret those signals alone.

I work with leaders and working mothers who want space to pause, reflect, and make aligned decisions.

Schedule a free 30-minute Clarity Discovery Session to explore whether this approach is right for you.

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Kimberly Jarena

Healthy Clarity by Kimberly Jarena

Astro-Numerology Practitioner & Intuitive Leadership Coaching

The Healthy Clarity Leadership Signals Model™ is a leadership reflection framework developed by Kimberly Jarena.© Kimberly Pollard LLC.