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As I discussed in Learning to Self-sooth – Part 1 , self-soothing is calming and centering ourselves; having tools to help us find our body/mind/heart/spirit connection; and coaching ourselves through whatever is coming our way so that we are then able to make wiser and more confident decisions that will have better outcomes. In Part 1, I also talked about an example of driving/running late, the negative thought spiral that we can begin to go down, and how a major step along my path to learning to self-sooth was discovering my breath and remembering to breathe when I thought life was throwing me a curve ball. To continue on in this series, I want to talk about whether we enjoy how we feel during those times and how we handle those situations and if there are ways that we can change how we react to the unexpected. Plants/flowers growing out of a window in the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey in Glastonbury, England. A good reminder that no matter how bleak and ruinous things might

This blog post is the first of a series of three about self-soothing.  Self-soothing is the ability to calm ourselves and bring ourselves to a point of centering where we find ourselves being more heart-centered and focused. It is having a toolbox full of tools that can help us find our balance (body, mind, heart, and spirit) and learn to coach ourselves through whatever is coming our way. With the resulting calm, collected, and centered state, we are then able to make wiser and more confident decisions that will have better outcomes. Learning to self-sooth is one of the best personal development tools I have given myself because it has helped me to fundamentally change how I handle situations for the better.   I have talked about several of the tools that I use in my personal growth in many of my videos/blog posts, and I thought it would be good to gather them together through the lens of self-soothing. How often do we have an unexpected or stressful event occur in our lives that