Hey everybody, Emily about to hear you are listening to 5 Minute Friday from Hurtle.

I'm going to be honest.

I have had a week, I feel as though it's only going to get more hectic from here.

I had a pretty trying day on Wednesday, just a lot of balls in the air, a lot of events

coming up, all of which I'm really, really excited about, but admittedly feeling a little

bit overwhelmed by and I got to this point in the afternoon on Wednesday where I felt

as though like I couldn't keep my cup from overflowing and that I felt obscenely emotional

and I just needed to let go and in having this moment and letting go, I came back to this

realization that there are certain things that are within my control when life feels

heavy and when life feels hectic and one of those things is my breath.

So I allowed myself to have this difficult moment, I allowed myself to feel overwhelmed

and admittedly a little bit angry and also sad due to things that were just beyond my

control and then I came back to my breath and as like I had a full fludged tears moment,

I saw there and I came back to my breath and I remembered what is within my control.

And that was really empowering and that was really beautiful and it was a moment that

I reflect on sitting here telling you about that I am proud of, you know, it's easy to

get wrapped up in days and categorize them as good or bad, but when you slow down a

little bit and you realize that even the smallest thing can be a victory, even the smallest

thing can be a win that there is goodness amongst the tough stuff amidst the bad things.

That's awesome.

My prompt for you this week hit me with a small win.

What's going on?

...