As a child, energy bubbled effortlessly with joy, and as an adult with a career in sport, I carefully trained energy for the demands of competition. More recently though, an illness wiped out my life. An energy crisis brought on by inflammation and metabolic dysfunction in every cell of my body, resulting in organ systems spiralling out of control. Every action of sustaining life – breathing, eating, thinking, sleeping, moving – challenged by energy deprivation.   We eventual

As a child, energy bubbled effortlessly with joy, and as an adult with a career in sport, I carefully trained energy for the demands of competition. More recently though, an illness wiped out my life. An energy crisis brought on by inflammation and metabolic dysfunction in every cell of my body, resulting in organ systems spiralling out of control. Every action of sustaining life – breathing, eating, thinking, sleeping, moving – challenged by energy deprivation.   We eventual

It’s all about buckets. There is a popular children’s story often used in school classrooms to teach the power of empathy, kindness, and compassion. When our bucket is full, we feel awesome. When our bucket is empty, we feel awful. Our goal is to have a full bucket (obviously) and become bucket-fillers, helping others achieve their goal as well. The metaphor can be stretched a thousand ways for better or worse, but my confession is that in my deep longing to feel love, bucket