I absolutely love that. And what's coming up for me as you talk about being able to sit with all these feelings is this idea between responding and reacting.

And I notice since I've become a mum, there's thousands of opportunities every day to just react to lose it, to shout, to spike that

cortisol, the stress hormone in my body from, you know, gosh, the meltdowns and the myriad of

things that happen with young children. And I'm wondering how meditation and this idea of

finding freedom from our triggers and our thoughts can help us in

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I think it's important to make this very practical because what I've

been talking about so far does sound very idealistic. And we're talking about sitting in retreats

and being a monk in a monastery. And that can seem very unrelatable. And it's not like that,

really. Everybody can practice these techniques in any situation.

And what you said just then about how in being a mother,

there are so many opportunities to lose your temper

or to get that cortisol spike.

But the word is opportunity, isn't it?

So in the same way that it's an opportunity to lose your temper, it's also an opportunity

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