cabin in the woods
Off the grid, losing your mind: Finding sanity in one person’s world

Listen to audio If there's one thing I've learned in all my years of booking and representing speakers, it's that there's always someone who needs something. always. I also learned a lot about healthy boundaries (and how bad I am at setting them). As motherhood piles up, you're faced with a tsunami of overwhelm. Last year, my special gift for borderless living took hold of me, and I found myself booking two nights in a small house in East Texas in early January. Or, as my husband likes to call it, “a fish tank in a cow pasture”—a nod to its lack of curtains, for reasons beyond me. I packed my record player, yoga mat, craft supplies, and one of my dogs, threw my phone in the glove box, and headed off for my first annual off-grid weekend. No TV, no Wi-Fi, no one - especially no one who needs anything. That is, except for me. I quickly realized that…