I have recently come to understand that fatigue is caused by so many factors, with sleep just being one of them.  Nutrition, exercise, hormones, stress -- they all play a large factor on your level of energy on a day to day basis.  But one of the largest factors, which I don't think is talked about nearly enough, is the MENTAL load that so many of us carry.  I'm talking about the to-do list of minutia that each of us have in our brains in a running fashion, that feels like it never ends (and without which, our families just may not function). Read More

This month has been challenging on the personal and family front.  Dealing with some sicknesses and some unfortunate incidents have left me, and many around me, emotionally drained.  But it’s also been a month of reflection and learning-- because if we don’t learn from life’s challenges to face them better and bolder the next time around, then what’s the point, right?  Life is always going to throw us curve balls.  The question is: how do we face these and grow from these bumps in the road? Read More