Work–Life Balance (Or Whatever This Actually Is)


Editor’s Note: It’s a bonus blog day! I’m pleased to introduce a new face to the Disentanglement.ca universe. Please welcome Cécile LePage. Lately, I’ve been thinking about work–life balance… and realizing how much progress I’ve made since 2011, when I got divorced. At that moment, I didn’t really know what a balanced life was supposed…

Cécile LePage

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Editor’s Note: It’s a bonus blog day! I’m pleased to introduce a new face to the Disentanglement.ca universe. Please welcome Cécile LePage.


Lately, I’ve been thinking about work–life balance… and realizing how much progress I’ve made since 2011, when I got divorced. At that moment, I didn’t really know what a balanced life was supposed to look like. It always sounded neat and orderly for others, though I suspected that wasn’t true for most people.
I needed to concentrate on myself. A few years before my divorce, I took a year-long course called Courage to Act for Women, and I chose to focus on my physical and mental health, as well as my overall family life.

In doing so, I always pictured my hands together, straight up, measuring how often I tilted to the right or the left. Right meant I was unbalanced personally; left meant I was unbalanced in my work life. I started learning then that if I slipped either way, I needed to recalibrate and act. I learned some precious lessons along the way: Stop, Evaluate, Take stock of what’s going on, Act, and Recalibrate or Adjust in the moment.

Over the years, I’ve noticed that different kinds of work affect me in very different ways. And once I started paying attention to that, things began to feel a lot better….

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