Anne, how do I manage homeschooling, being a wife, a mother, etc. when I need so much rest? [How do I] not get stressed out? Isn’t this a realistic question? I thought so, when I opened my email this past week and read this. This mom is basically saying, “It’s fine to tell me not […]

Last week we began discussing how to recover from fatigue, and you’ll remember that it all hinges on spending less energy than you make. In other words, you have to STOP doing the things that deplete your body of energy and START doing the things that nourish your body. Like a checking account, you can’t […]

If I had a quarter for every email I’ve received in the last few weeks, asking me to hurry and tell how to recover from fatigue, I’d be a rich woman! Today’s your day. I’m going to cover the basic steps to beating fatigue, although a few of these steps deserve more detail than I […]

One theory for why so many moms are exhausted is that their adrenal glands have been overworked. The adrenal glands affect every other organ and function of your body. The hormones produced by your adrenal glands are essential for life. If you didn’t produce them, you would simply die. The most important adrenal hormone is […]

Just how tired are you, anyway? Did you know that your body goes through stages of fatigue? In a body that is functioning correctly, scientists have observed that your cortisol levels are highest in the morning and lowest at midnight. Another hormone, DHEA, must also be maintained at a certain level, since hormones such as […]