After every major conference or deployment, there’s that moment when you come home, step back into everyday life – and it doesn’t feel like you expected. Instead of feeling recharged, you feel like you’re crashing into everything you had left behind.
I just got back from Fire-Rescue International, and it hit differently this time. Not in a bad way, but in a way that reminded me how fast life piles up when you step away, even for something good.
I wrote a piece about that return: the bottleneck that forms when life shows up all at once, and how movement, even in the smallest ways, can help you feel realigned. If you’ve ever felt the tension between momentum and maintenance, this one might resonate with you ...