I work with many teenagers and when I mention breathing it often elicits eye rolls and yawning. And I get it, we breath all day every day and most of the young people I see are tired of people telling them to take some deep breaths. The beauty of deep steady breathing is that we don’t have to believe it will work in order for it to work. When we get overwhelmed by our big feelings, we automatically start to breath more quickly and this activates the stress response in our bodies. Our heart starts to beat super-fast in order to pump blood into our arms and legs and our breathing speeds up to increase the level of oxygen in our bodies. This often feels really uncomfortable and many people describe feeling out of control in these moments. This is where breathing becomes our superpower. It is something that we always have with us, we never leave it at home and even if we don’t believe for one tiny second it will help …. it will because deep steady breathing is our bodi