I was angry. I was exhausted. Or, so I thought. Sure, I took a brief sabbatical from my volunteer madness. I even thought I was addressing my needs.
Lifestyle changes have a way of complicating situations.
My mind and my body were screaming at me to pay attention, to accept the current state of my health and to make changes at once. This second bout with trucker's wife burnout made it more difficult to place blame on my driver. This time I was beginning to see the pattern unfold. Kim Thomas is a trucker's wife who lives in the bitter cold and beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She raises her three teenage children while her husband trucks the lower 48 and Canada.