>Many of us leave our 9-to-5s for freelancing with the expectation that it will give us back work-life balance

I think "many of us" don't know any small business owners.

>it didn’t take long before I gave up on professionalism and slipped into oversharing the messier parts of life that I usually don’t put on display for coworkers—being hungover, braless, binge-watching Terrace House.

This sort of "oversharing" is normal in pretty much any blue collar industry that provides housing for workers.