Silence.

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All headlines were published on one day – July 5, 2023. I’m wearing noise-canceling headphones.


First…TURN OFF THE DAMN NEWS!!! GET OFF SOCIAL MEDIA!

Thank you.

Now…do this…

Maine coast, 2021

Take a few deep breaths from your diaphragm and release the tension in your body. Focus on a five-count breath:

  1. Slowly inhale from the belly
  2. Then into the ribs
  3. Then into your chest
  4. Up into crown of the head
  5. Then gently hold the breath for the fifth count

Reverse this process on the exhale for another count of five, exhaling from the crown, chest, ribs, belly, pausing on the last bit of breath out of the body, and then begin again.

Try to visualize the tension leaving your body from your head to your feet, either as imagining that the stress is literally draining from you through your toes, escaping your body with every breath, or simply melting away. – Source

Namaste.



Katie Linsky Shaw, Photographer, Photojournalist

Youth Mental Health Crisis – An ongoing photography and story-telling project

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