Achieving Balance—The Truths Behind the Buzzword
The more integrated our work and home lives become with working remotely on the rise, the more we hear people talking about finding “Balance.” Whether it’s a healthy work-life balance, a balanced diet, a healthy give-and-take in a relationship, we all understand the fact that the “good” comes with the “bad”—the hard with the easy, etc.—and we are forever trying to find that perfect in-between space. Balance has become a romanticized, idealized buzzword we throw around…and a lot of people want to call bullshit on it. It can feel like a false construct—something unachievable or bordering on toxic positivity. And, that is true in a lot of cases. A whole lot of unhealthy and unproductive shit is pushed around under the guise of “Achieving Balance”
