The past six months have been one of the most challenging for me between the stress of grad school, work, taking on a leadership role in a community organization and personal...somewhere along the way I lost the person I want to be.  So much of what I was going through I couldn’t discuss with people, I have to say my husband was my saving grace to be there on the tough days.  It was a struggle to take care of me and I found myself falling back into my old patterns, when I was stressed, I would eat so even though I was keeping up with my workouts, it wasn’t enough.  There were many days I felt like I was just going through the motions of life.   In the past couple of weeks, I realized with another year closing and celebrating my 37th birthday, it was up to me to make some changes to reconnect to myself and focus on taking care of me.   There will always be those that count on me in life but I’m no good to them when I’m not where I need to be.   After taking a week off from work and goin