I honestly thought I knew what I was signing up for. Then we actually did it, and I found out how much I didn't know. Maybe you know the pull I'm talking about. You picture a different kind of childhood for your kids, slower, muddier, closer to the ground.

I thought I'd be a teacher forever. I loved it. The honest version doesn't start with burnout. It starts with a girl who got talked into a career she swore she didn't want, fell hard for it, and then found out she could do that same work somewhere else.

What nobody tells you about farm life is that the work never ends. I grew up dreaming about a farm, which it turns out is a completely different qualification than growing up on one.

Somewhere along the way we were taught that exhaustion was just part of adulthood. It's not. Here are the simple movement habits for more energy that changed everything for me.