Hi @kmakm - sorry your feeling low. Emotions are funny things, sometimes good sometimes not so good. Just wondering if you are maybe doing too much? You are a strong independent woman, and for the last five years you have had a truck load dumped. Your body/mind is probably saying whoa - now is the time to maybe sit and reflect. So when things don't go as usual you can go into overload, and I'm sure for me its the tears that are the relief valve.
You will get past this, but as you already know you have to be kind to yourself. Even if it means reinventing yourself. I really miss golf, I feel good at the moment and would normally be out there playing today in the sun, but I will be inside reading, slow walking the dog, I have even pulled out the sewing machine (first time in 20 odd years) - I needed some scarves. I'm 59 so have been through menopause, and that tests you on many different levels.
"Give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Living one day at a time"
Hugs Julie