can you enjoy the thing? - by Ava - bookbear express

Hi! As you may have heard, I’m doing a workshop on conflict and friendship in SF on May 18th :) You can learn more about it here. Paid subscribers get 20% off with the code BOOKBEARFRIENDS. We will be spending all day together and talking about how to have a better relationship with conflict. Please consider coming!! I’ve realized recently that by default I take very shallow breaths. Unless I’m meditating or doing yoga I generally don’t pay attention to my breath at all, but in the past couple of weeks I’ll suddenly remember and interrupt my train of thought to take a few slow deep breaths. It helps. Turns out, breathing feels really good, and I instantly become calmer when I’m breathing into my belly. It’s taken me a long time to think of breathing as something to be enjoyed. I think that in general I have a weird relationship with enjoyment—I’m not particularly good at it. It’s in my nature to be hypervigilant, and as a result I’m always noodling over current dilemmas in my life or a

Hi! As you may have heard, I’m doing a workshop on conflict and friendship in SF on May 18th :) You can learn more about it here. Paid subscribers get 20% off with the code BOOKBEARFRIENDS. We will be spending all day together and talking about how to have a better relationship with conflict. Please consider coming!! I’ve realized recently that by default I take very shallow breaths. Unless I’m meditating or doing yoga I generally don’t pay attention to my breath at all, but in the past couple of weeks I’ll suddenly remember and interrupt my train of thought to take a few slow deep breaths. It