Kerry Washington

When I got married and had kids, I was like, I need to figure out how to put this down. Like, I don't want to bring this home. I want to be able to have a healthy life outside of work.

When I got married and had kids, I was like, I need to figure out how to put this down. Like, I don't want to bring this home. I want to be able to have a healthy life outside of work.

Some of it is ritual. Sometimes I really try to look at the hair and makeup process and the costume process as very ritualistic. And so when I'm taking the clothes off at the end of the day, I'm taking the character off at the end of the day. I just did a movie called... where I was playing, it's a movie directed by Ben Affleck and he, he and I are husband and wife.

Some of it is ritual. Sometimes I really try to look at the hair and makeup process and the costume process as very ritualistic. And so when I'm taking the clothes off at the end of the day, I'm taking the character off at the end of the day. I just did a movie called... where I was playing, it's a movie directed by Ben Affleck and he, he and I are husband and wife.

And so, you know, every day at work, I have to take off my wedding ring and I pin it to myself. I never not have it with me. So I always pin it to myself somewhere. When you're shooting, when you're filming. And then I have to take this other wedding ring, right? That belongs to the movie. And I have to put on this other wedding ring and now I'm in this marriage. So

And so, you know, every day at work, I have to take off my wedding ring and I pin it to myself. I never not have it with me. So I always pin it to myself somewhere. When you're shooting, when you're filming. And then I have to take this other wedding ring, right? That belongs to the movie. And I have to put on this other wedding ring and now I'm in this marriage. So

At the end of the day, it's really important to me to take off that wedding ring, take off that marriage, that's not my life, and put my own ring back on and step into my life.

At the end of the day, it's really important to me to take off that wedding ring, take off that marriage, that's not my life, and put my own ring back on and step into my life.

But I think it works in life too, right? Like when we give ourselves those rituals, like there's something, if you, when you have a meditation practice, like again, I can pray and meditate anywhere, but there is something different about when I sit on that pillow in that corner of my bedroom and light that candle, there's a different kind of drop in, right?

But I think it works in life too, right? Like when we give ourselves those rituals, like there's something, if you, when you have a meditation practice, like again, I can pray and meditate anywhere, but there is something different about when I sit on that pillow in that corner of my bedroom and light that candle, there's a different kind of drop in, right?

Like we have these cues that really allow us to signal to our body different realities and different ways of being present.

Like we have these cues that really allow us to signal to our body different realities and different ways of being present.

But the body doesn't know the difference.

But the body doesn't know the difference.

Of who you are. Yeah, and a lot of it is like being an athlete. You have to really take care. You have to make sure, because it wrecks havoc on your nervous system, The sleeping and the eating and the exercising, those practices are really, really important to maintain sanity. I remember after the second season of Scandal, I was like so depleted, so exhausted.

Of who you are. Yeah, and a lot of it is like being an athlete. You have to really take care. You have to make sure, because it wrecks havoc on your nervous system, The sleeping and the eating and the exercising, those practices are really, really important to maintain sanity. I remember after the second season of Scandal, I was like so depleted, so exhausted.

And I went to my doctor and we did some blood work and he was like, your adrenals are shot. what is going on? And I was like, what's going on? I play this woman who like every single episode, somebody walks into my office on the worst day of their life and I have to fix it.

And I went to my doctor and we did some blood work and he was like, your adrenals are shot. what is going on? And I was like, what's going on? I play this woman who like every single episode, somebody walks into my office on the worst day of their life and I have to fix it.

So my adrenals are shot, you know, or when we were doing a scene, some, you know, some crazy scene on scandal where somebody was lying on the floor of the office covered in blood and we're all like screaming and holding them. And I was pregnant at the time.

So my adrenals are shot, you know, or when we were doing a scene, some, you know, some crazy scene on scandal where somebody was lying on the floor of the office covered in blood and we're all like screaming and holding them. And I was pregnant at the time.