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Imagine this. Your toddler is having a meltdown in the grocery store. Your own heartbeat speeds up and your breathing becomes shallow in a nanosecond. You feel your child’s distress and your own. This is where we hit the “pause” button and imagine something different (and you can try it right now). You take several slow deep breaths, notice your sensations including your feet solidly on the ground, and send kindness to yourself and your child for being in this predicament. Rather than feeling a creeping sense of panic and seeking the closest escape route, you look at your options more calmly. You may still leave the store, but your heart is no longer beating as if you are being chased by a lion. You are simply a mom with a overwhelmed toddler finding a solution to the problem. How did you do it?
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As parents we breathe, we come to our hands and knees, we take a stand, we balance and we fall. We stand up again. We push the edges of our comfort zone as warriors of love. We bend over backwards with open hearts, we become children, we play dead. We start all over again. We find grace.
