What Becoming Balanced Means to Me

“Becoming Balanced” was very intentionally chosen to be our business name. We surveyed the women in our life regarding our business idea as well as ideas for business names. Trishia and I ultimately decided on Becoming Balanced because it captures exactly what we are trying to do for ourselves with this business.  To me, “becoming balanced” has many meanings for the various facets of my life. Firstly, it means living my life in a way that allows for flexibility to carry out my roles and obligations. I enjoy my career as a psychologist and I also enjoy being a wife, living on an acreage, owning animals, being an aunt, reading, being in nature, and spending time with friends and family. As you know, it can be hard to devote time to each of those areas even if we have a week off from work! For me, it is important to have flexibility in my work schedule to help me balance all of those various areas of my life—being able to take time away to be with a dear friend who has surgery or to harvest and can food out of our garden in the fall or take my dog to the veterinarian. Secondly, becoming balanced includes time to develop my yoga practice so I can be eligible to attend yoga teacher training.  It has been a goal of mine for a couple years to be able to incorporate movement into my work and life. I told one of my former supervisors a couple years ago my dream job would be to wear exercise clothes to work each day and exercise with my clients. I have struggled with my weight and strength over the years and love the idea of “killing two birds with one stone” when it comes to physical fitness.  Lo and behold, I am working on making that dream a reality!  Thirdly, becoming balanced is not being a hypocrite.  It is important to me to practice what I preach which includes figuring out how to have time for self-care and not running myself ragged for everyone and everything else in life.  I am intentionally choosing to focus on engaging in tasks/jobs/responsibilities/roles that feel “light” to me, even when that means being uncomfortable and letting others down. Lastly, becoming balanced means freedom to be who I am, do what I enjoy doing, and help women figure out how they can also do that for themselves.   I am a huge proponent of women helping other women—we face enough obstacles in our daily lives, we don’t need to make it harder on each other.   I am over the moon excited to be on this journey with my colleague and friend, Trishia, and the rest of the women who will enter our lives because of “Becoming Balanced.”  Welcome to our tribe!