In January I wrote about how 2016 was going to be a cornerstone year in my life when looking back. Looking back, it’s easy to say how much I underestimated the truth of it.
Every month of this year I can feel the stress of past years continuing to wash off. I stopped doing much of my self-reflecting routines and fell into places that I never should have let myself get into. A personal failing of mine is refusing to allow things around me to fail if I can help it – even if it means taking on more and more and more. Sometimes it is necessary to let the first ball hit the ground and only keep the ones in the air that really matter.
Your body knows when things are out of alignment and stress is its way of telling you to slow down. Listen.