{"id":33023,"date":"2025-11-05T21:27:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/less-is-more\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:27:23","slug":"less-is-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/less-is-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Less Is More"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My daughter Lizzy and I were about two hours into our road trip to my hometown when a call from my husband came through: \u201cDo you know where Maddy\u2019s tennis shoes might be?\u201d Our older daughter had tennis practice in 30 minutes \u2014 and her first tournament the next morning \u2014 and her new shoes were missing.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was wearing them when she got home from morning practice \u2014 they have to be there,\u201d I replied. We ended the call, the two of them continuing to tear apart our home in search, Lizzy and I continuing our drive. Until a few miles down the road.<\/p>\n

As I mentally retraced the actions I\u2019d taken before leaving home, I recalled throwing my running shoes in my suitcase. Between wrapping up some work and packing for a quick weekend away<\/a>, I had been in a rush. I had a sinking feeling: Could I have grabbed her shoes? I couldn\u2019t have grabbed her shoes!<\/p>\n

I stopped to check my bag as soon as we pulled into the next town \u2014 and sure enough, there they were. I began to cry as I dialed my husband to let them know the shoes were, in fact, with us.<\/p>\n

That might seem like a strong reaction, but I had been maintaining a jam-packed schedule for several weeks\u00a0leading up to this, with minimal downtime. I had just returned from a longer-than-expected work trip and was barely home for 24 hours before hitting the road again. I was physically and emotionally spent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d been ignoring all sorts of signs that I was running on fumes<\/a>. My sleep tracker had been flagging low heart-rate variability along with an elevated resting heart rate \u2014 yet I continued to push myself in workouts. Recent bloodwork pointed toward high stress levels and adrenal fatigue<\/a> \u2014 yet I was compromising sleep and recovery. My energy was flagging, and my mood was all over\u00a0the place.<\/p>\n

Packing Maddy\u2019s shoes instead of my own was another sign that I needed to slow down \u2014 because my go-go-go lifestyle was affecting the people I love most too.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, this incident occurred just a few days after I met and interviewed this month\u2019s cover feature, Judith Joseph, MD, MBA, a psychiatrist and the author of High Functioning: Overcome Your Hidden Depression and Reclaim Your Joy<\/em> (see her story here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

After reading Joseph\u2019s book and then talking with her, I decided to delve deeper into her practices. I had found myself checking the boxes for several of the tendencies associated with high-functioning depression: nonstop busyness<\/a>, restlessness, chronic productivity, people-pleasing, and self-care neglect. I felt deep down that I had some work I needed \u2014 and, importantly, wanted \u2014 to do.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still early in the process of putting in the work; it\u2019s three steps forward, two steps back. But I\u2019m on the path of reconnecting and being more in tune with that inner knowing that\u2019s trying to tell me what\u2019s good and right for me. I\u2019m setting some personal and professional boundaries, I\u2019m delegating where I can, and I\u2019m listening more closely to my body.<\/p>\n

\u201cHealthy Connections\u201d \u2014 the theme of this issue \u2014 begin with the one we have with ourself, expanding from there. This season, let\u2019s give ourselves the gift of recognizing and prioritizing our own well-being and self-care<\/a>. Ultimately, that\u2019s also one of the greatest gifts we can give to the people we love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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My daughter Lizzy and I were about two hours into our road trip to my hometown when a call from my husband came through: \u201cDo you know where Maddy\u2019s tennis shoes might be?\u201d Our older daughter had tennis practice in 30 minutes \u2014 and her first tournament the next morning \u2014 and her new shoes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-life"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:14:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}