Riding Emotional Hurricanes: Finding Calm Through Breath and Self-Reflection

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Hurricane season, typically occurring in August each year in the US, serves as a metaphor for the emotional storms that can brew within us. In my own life, it felt as if hurricane season persisted daily for fifty years. I lacked the ability to decipher the impending tempest, the atmospheric conditions that fueled it, yet I was acutely aware of my reactions to…