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To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. dot com. Namst day friends. Welcome. A couple of months ago I agreed to doing an event for a group

several hundred people and they first they did this internal survey because they want to decide

what they what I should be addressing for them and they overwhelmingly voted for

for the focus to be overwhelmed, to be how to work with really intense stress.

So I figured this is a microcosm of our society and I wanted to explore it with you with this kind of deep inquiry of how do we convert our experience of stress into a really integral part of our practice?

So it becomes a portal into true presence and homecoming.

And the request for this focus

was actually quite timely for me personally.

We had just gotten an eight week old pop right around that time. And of course, we're in total adoration, you know, the oxytocin has been flowing, it still is,

lots of loving. And she arrived during a season, many are that had quite a lot of demands for me a lot of deadlines

Tocks I was giving a lot of meetings gearing up for another round of teacher training that I'm doing with

Jack Hornfield, legal contracts, the whole deal. So a lot of stress and here we were with this puppy where as those of you that have had new

puppies know like every 45 minutes I was tearing outside trying to anticipate the next need to pee and so on.

Then I'd go inside and try to finish writing a piece on, you know, mindful letting go for some such topic.

So you get the idea.

I was, my attention was a bit fragmented.

And as I share this with you, I get that this is an overwhelmed story of the

worried well compared to many overwhelmed stories. It's kind of lightweight.

And since I was in stories. It's kind of lightweight.

And since I was in a bit of a tizzy, you know,

I had some real uptightness around the deadlines

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