Most days it feels like the world doesn't stop.

The headlines keep coming.

The messages keep piling up.

And your mind just keeps going.

The world can feel loud, fast, and overwhelming.

But what if?

For a few minutes, everything slowed down.

On May 13th, Headspace is inviting you to join the global deep breath.

An eight-minute guided mindfulness exercise, you'll experience at the same time with people all over the world.

Wherever you are, take a moment for yourself to step out of the noise and into something quieter together.

Join us over on YouTube.com forward slash headspace on May 13th at 12 p.m. EST.

Headspace Studio. Hey friends, it's Rosie here.

Welcome back to Radio Headspace.

When I was little, the playgrounds didn't have soft rubber mat or padded turf. It had concrete.

Real unforgiving, skin meets ground concrete. Metal bars bolted into cement that didn't care how old

you were or how soft your knees still felt.

I remember falling more than once. I remember that hot, immediate sting when skin met metal.

That slide of death in the middle of a Los Angeles summer in the 90s. The kind of heat

where the metal burned your thighs before you even sat down.

Your palms would sweat against the bars and one wrong grip meant gravity did the rest.

I still have a faint scar on my knee from a fall that felt catastrophic at five years old.

I would run home crying, little rocks embedded in my

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