You're probably familiar with the phrase: "Just take a deep breath - you'll be fine." But for someone with anxiety, this is the very LAST thing they want to hear. Believe me...when someone tells me to 'calm down' it makes me anything BUT! Through yoga teacher training and my own personal yoga practice, something became quite clear......breathing is HARD. No, not just breathing to survive...but actually LISTENING to your breath. When was the last time you noticed subconsciously how hard your body is working for you? Or better yet, when was the last time you stopped everything you were doing to just BE?! If you haven't guessed it, this post is about Breathing/Meditation. No, I'm not an expert at specific types of meditative work, nor do I practice for hours on end each day. What I DO, in fact, is something that's actually very simple to the core. I sit...and I breathe. That's (really) it. For the past few weeks, I've ex