Reading time: 4 minutes Playlist: Start with something without words. Seriously. We'll get there. May is the loudest month for the quietest need. Scroll through any feed right now and you'll find it. A beautiful, well-intentioned spread of mental health offerings. And I say well-intentioned genuinely, because we're getting so, so much better at talking about mental health. That part is real progress and it matters. But here's what I've been sitting with lately: awareness with

Most of us adults know we need to pause before reacting. We've all heard it. We've all nodded at it. Pause before you respond. Count to ten. Take a breath. None of this is new information. And yet, in the moments that actually matter, when your kid pushes the button, when your partner says the thing, when the email hits at 4:47pm on a Friday, the pause we know about in theory has officially skipped town on the first flight out. In its place is the raging, dysregulated, fire-b

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