Hi guys, it's Rachel and this is a quick word on Work Life Balance.

Whenever I think that people have finally clued in to the fact that Work Life Balance

is a myth, inevitably I start to see articles about it again and headlines or I start to

get questions from the community asking how I balance everything, how do I do it all?

Such a weird question. I see that not just with me but with other women. It's like,

oh, how do you do it all? I just feel like that question really sets up both the person asking

and the person answering in the wrong head space. So I thought I'd talk about Work Life Balance

for y'all again. In case you haven't heard this theory yet, Work Life Balance is a myth.

The first time I wrote about this, I think was probably eight years ago. It was a really hot topic.

I was being interviewed by some really popular online publication at the time and they had a

series of questions that they asked me and one of them was tell us how you balance your work

and your life as a mother. And I remember it was someone I really wanted to impress. So at first,

I started the paragraph trying to think of, well, how do I balance it? But I literally couldn't

come up with any answers because I thought my life is the opposite of balance. It never, ever feels

completely imbalanced. Like if you think of a scale, if you think of, you know, imagine like

lady justice holding up that scale where there's a little plate on either side and it's supposed to

be totally imbalanced, your life is never going to be like that. Or at least my life has never

been like that. What happens is that there are seasons where one area of your life is requiring

a lot more energy than the other. And in those seasons, one side of your scale is going to be way

down more than the other side. But if you're believing that they're supposed to be even at all

times, it's going to make you feel like you're doing something wrong. One of my dear friends is

days away from having her first baby. And in order to be present with her new baby, she's going to

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