From "fine" to fully alive.
Welcome to The Balanced Living Guide.
I’m not here to teach you how to live “right.” I’m here to question everything we’ve been told about what life should be – and learn, alongside you, how to actually feel alive in the one we’ve got.
This isn’t self-help. It’s self-remembering.
For years, I tried to do life the way the world said to — the goals, the checklists, the constant pressure to hold it all together.
It looked “fine.” But it didn’t feel alive.
Now I’m learning to unlearn — to stop controlling, stop performing, and start moving with life instead of against it.
The Balanced Living Guide isn’t a blueprint anymore. It’s a living journal — a space to explore what happens when we stop forcing, start trusting, and make room for what’s real.
What This Journey Is About
Because I got tired of performing my way through life and decided to figure out what the hell living actually means.
💭 Questioning the illusion
Unlearning what we were taught to believe about success, worth, and “normal.”
✨ Living true to your design
Remembering who you actually are and building a life that fits you, not the mold.
🔥 Letting go of control
Releasing the white-knuckle grip on how life “should” go and learning to move with what is.
🌙 Flowing with life
Creating enough structure for freedom – enough rhythm for magic to move through.
❤️ Breaking the cycle
Refusing to pass down pressure, perfectionism, and performance – and learning to love living, for real.
🌿 Remembering what matters
You already know what matters. This is where you get quiet enough to hear it again – and trust it.
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Hey, I'm Bailee!
Mom of two, recovering good girl, and the heart behind The Balanced Living Guide.
I spent years trying to do life “right” – checking all the boxes, following the rules, holding it all together. It was exhausting.
Somewhere between burnout and autopilot, I realized I wasn’t just doing it to myself – I was teaching my girls to do it too. That’s when I called bullshit on the whole thing.
So I started digging. Questioning “normal.” Learning who I actually am and how I’m meant to move through the world.
I made progress, felt freer, even tried to teach it until I realized I’m still in it.
Now, this space is the messy, thrilling middle of figuring it out.
Learning our design. Asking the questions no one else is asking. Telling perfection to fuck right off.
I don’t have the answers – but I’m here for the adventure.
Come with me. Let’s stop living fine and start feeling fully alive.
