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Part 2: Without No, there can be no Yes.

I propose we spend a few minutes every day taking some time to PAUSE. Taking some time to reorganize ourselves.

Changing my position, giving myself, quite literally, a different perspective, tends to rattle something free in my brain.

I kept catching myself lifting my shoulders, hunching toward my paper and holding my breath. Old habits die hard.

Sometimes the most “productive” thing to do is nothing. Productive of renewed energy, refreshed thinking, rediscovered enthusiasm.

Hunching over or puffing up are not benign, but are instead powerful information about what is happening inside our children (and ourselves)