We hope that through these shared experiences you will be able to connect with the others that share their experience of returning to work and the difficulties that are associated.

Please click on the links below to read their stories.

• Samantha's experience has been mixed
• Karen was lucky with her employers who helped her return to work
• Ben's mum is finding the prospect of returning to work hard
• Working it out - a bereaved mother's struggle to return to work

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