So this week, we're going to do a series about coming back to yourself. And this one is about

maybe you've been somewhere else. So with this week, it is about coming back to yourself, but not in

some big, dramatic way, not with declarations or even vision boards, which I've never been able to understand,

but just a really quiet remembering.

It's remembering that beneath the noise, the list, the pretending,

you're still in there, like you, you are.

And some mornings, let's just be honest, your body wakes up before you do. Right? Your mind is already sprinting towards problems that don't even exist.

Right? And you feel like a background character in your own day, right?

So here's something really small.

Place your hand on your stomach.

And fill it rise when you take a breath in.

And now take an exile and fill it lower.

That's you. That's you.

That's you still breathing.

If your other hand is on your heart,

maybe you feel the beating of your heart.

You're still here.

And that's all today needs to be.

Just a return.

Not to who you were, but to who you are.

Because a lot of times our mind wants to be anywhere but here.

And so simply placing your hand on your stomach and one in your chest

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