Balance, by definition, is the process of achieving or maintaining equilibrium. This can often be interpreted as a simple equation: when there is too much work, we must add some rest. But what we overlook when striving for balance is that what’s at either end of the scale isn’t like-for-like. As comedian Jacqueline Novak put it in an episode of the podcast she co-hosts, POOG, “My wellness will not be homogenous; my balance will be the tiny thousand-pound nail on one side of the scale and six thousand grapes on the other.”
