A Hearticle About Work Life Balance

There’s a lot in the media these days about the importance of work life balance; how to achieve it, how to know when you’ve achieved it, how to maintain it. For those with family obligations, a healthy work life balance is especially important; both to the working parent and to the spouse and children at home. Still, there’s something just a little insidious about making the work life balance yet another “something” that we have to strive for. It feels—at least to me—like it puts another demand on us. Are we allowed to feel perfectly joyful at work, or should …read more