Take a deep breath, let it out, and repeat after Sophia: "Everyone around me is fighting some sort of battle, and deserves a break. Everyone including me." Sigh.... We may not be talking about the kind of "break" that involves faraway destinations, exotic cocktails, and a month away from work - although we all need that from time to time as well - but the breaks we are talking about are just as valuable when it comes to finding balance in life. The balanced life so many of us are teetering and tottering our way toward - between the joys and pressures of work and family, friendship and solitude, boundless information and our next tweet - is hard to define, but so dependent upon the little breaks Sophia details below.
The kind of breaks that signify a little grace, a second glance at the human in front of you, a softened edge to your own hard-lined calendar - possibly even a downshift from go-go-go mode to go-on-ahead-of-me-in-line mode. As we drive hard through all the opportunities of our age - or through the many struggles common to it - take note of just how uplifting the little breaks we give ourselves and others can be.
Here are a few of the details that keep Sophia sane through tapings, fittings, travels, and other realities of her well-balanced life... [olists num=1]
Read more from Sophia Bush this month on The Chalkboard Mag! Get inspired for a great summer with her Letter From Our Guest Editor here and watch for more all month with TCM.
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