Having a hard day? Consider this your reminder: you are indestructible. At your core, at your essence, there is something within you that none of life’s challenges can ever break. You are more than you can imagine. Your life matters.

When we make mistakes, we might rush to beat ourselves up. But—don’t forget to ask whether the stories are even true. Perhaps our shame and fear convinces us that we are solely to blame, when in fact, we are simply human.

We’ve all been there, before: in a place of negative mental rumination where we’re tossed around by our thoughts. When we start watching the watcher, we engage with a presence-based practice where we step outside of our frantic thinking and into feeling more grounded in ourselves. Here’s how.

Consciously dropping overwhelm is a choice that we can make when we step out of the “Story” that overwhelm carries with it. This isn’t bypassing our lived experience. It’s a conscious choice to make, moment to moment.