7 Good Minutes

The paper is exactly where it was this morning. The letter, the form, the thing from school with a date on it. You saw it four or five times today — on the counter at coffee, under the bread at midday...

6 Nov 2min

You're on your second pass through the same paragraph, and nothing is landing. That's the moment for the out-loud stop.Turn the page over so you can't keep reading it. Then say out loud, in plain word...

5 Nov 1min

There's a letter on the counter you've already picked up more than once. The insurance letter, the benefits form, the note from school that needs an answer by Friday. You read it to the bottom, realiz...

5 Nov 5min

You remembered the ten seconds about forty minutes too late. Standing at the sink with the water running, the house finally quiet, and nothing left to be calm about — that is usually when it arrives o...

5 Nov 3min

The milk is on the floor, the phone is buzzing, and your chest just went tight. This short exercise, called Exhale, Rename, Next, gives you something to do in that moment, in about ten seconds.Let one...

4 Nov 2min

It's a quarter to eight. The cereal goes over, the permission slip is missing, a work message buzzes in early, and the car is almost out of gas. None of it is a big deal on its own, but together it le...

4 Nov 7min

Somebody held something up to show you today. A child with a drawing, a partner starting a sentence about their day, or just someone standing in a doorway waiting to see whether you would look up. You...

4 Nov 3min

A snippy text, a passing comment, a small mistake you can’t stop replaying. Something minor grabs you, and the rest of the evening follows it.This short exercise sets up a two-minute short list: no mo...

3 Nov 1min