I woke up this morning feeling emotional. This past year has felt like a fog. A deep, heavy fog. It has challenged me emotionally, physically and spiritually in ways I am probably still beginning to understand. There has been pain, change, uncertainty and enormous transformation. And this morning, I found myself thinking about pain. This is what I've learned about the line between empathy and self-abandonment. Not only the pain of this past year, but the pain I have carried f
