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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHart Radio. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is that life is

stressful and life is wonderful. There is no contradiction

here. Rather than impose a single narrative on life, we can acknowledge both truths and see both

kinds of moments for what they are. Today's tip, like several others this week, comes from my book, I Know How She Does It,

which is 10 years old this month.

For this book, I studied 1001 days in the lives of women who had big jobs and who also

had kids at home, to see what life really looked like.

I found that in the 168 hours of a week, there is plenty of time to work, enjoy family time,

sleep, exercise, read, see friends, and so forth.

Lots of people do, in fact, have it all. Of course, there were

stressful moments too. Any 168 hours has some highs and lows. But I think it is important to zoom out

and see both the good moments and the bad moments together, without

deciding that the bad needs to define everything. To illustrate this in the book I told the story

of a summer day trip to the Jersey shore, if I wanted to point to evidence that this trip was a disaster,

I could. We got stuck in traffic on the way there, which turned a 90-minute

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