Breathe slowly. Smell the roses (inhale, through your nose), blow out the candles (exhale completely out of your mouth). Again. Breathe. You’re going to be okay. You’ve felt this before—these feelings you have right now. Uncomfortable. Anxious. Embarrassed. Afraid. You’ve felt them, and you have survived. Breathe, and know you will survive this, too, wiser and stronger. The feelings can’t break you. They can hurt. They can sting. They can waylay your plans. But if you’ll sit with the feelings—notice them, stay with them without trying to run—if you do sit with them and really feel them—you’ll
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