She has the rank. The reputation. The family photographs that make people ask how she does it. Leslie Latimore-Lorfils spent 27 years as a U.S. Army human resources officer, deployed when called, retired as a Lieutenant Colonel, and raised 12 children while doing all of it.
She also knows what that costs. Not in the abstract, the way a wellness brochure knows it, but in her own body. The years of being the one everyone leans on. The performance that never gets to stop. The way a woman can look completely put together in every room she enters and still not feel at home in her own skin.
She was not broken. She was depleted. And when she finally understood the difference, it changed what she believed women like her actually need.
