How do you manage stress?
Supposedly, stress is not what happens to us, but how we respond to it. Which makes sense until you’re in the middle of it.
What is actually true, is how you do choose to be in that moment.
Most of the external stuff, we have very little control over.
The weather.
The traffic.
That other mom who is waiting in the carpool drop-off line.
But we can choose to either freak out, or not.
Sometimes just bringing the focus back in and listening to breath, your own, is enough to recenter.
Give it a try next time things seem to be a little out of control.
