Taking time to breathe

Sometimes I forget to breathe, life can be so overwhelming and I allow the stresses of everyday to snowball and become an ever present looming shadow over every decision and action that I make. Doing small things or making small decisions seem to feel like they are life altering, although they are far from it. The last few years have felt like a very stressful time and have caused me to become tightly wound and moody. Quick to fly off the handle and my parenting has suffered for it. I find myself with an attitude sometimes that I'm not proud of and i feel even worse when this exact attitude is expressed by my beautiful children (namely Master 6). I have a fierce protective and unconditional love for my children and it breaks my heart to think that I could be causing them to be unnecessarily stressed or to have a negative outlook. So sometimes just breathing is a problem. Taking the time to take a deep cleansing breath before I act or speak is something that I really need to work on. Maybe counting to 10 and deciding if what I was planning to do or say is really what I want. Allowing myself to see the possible outcomes or just to let feelings of stress, anxiety or frustration go. I hope we all get the chance to take the time to just breathe in this beautiful world that we've been blessed with.