Mindfulness helps you create spaciousness for the challenging, difficult, and triggering experiences that you will inevitably encounter in life. Mindfulness helps you to allow whatever arises for you (and your loved ones) in the midst of challenges. It allows you to simply be, rather than push uncomfortable emotions away.  In this episode, Ni-Cheng shares a vulnerable parenting experience, specifically the bullying of one of her children, and how mindfulness and coaching helped. As humans, we are engrained with habitual automatic reactions to unknowns, dangers, challenges, and triggers.  Fear, catastrophizing, anxiety, and worry arising are normal reactions to difficult life circumstances AND it is possible to expand toward what is possible and probable with mindfulness and coaching.  Often the situation turns out better than originally anticipated.   Sometimes stepping back and allowing circumstances to unfold and trusting our village to step in may also be the healthiest, and most healing response.  We hope you find this episode valuable. If you want to find calm, contentment, and a clear and meaningful path forward in areas of your life beyond relationships, I invite you to explore private mindful coaching with Dr. Mahoney www.jessiemahoneymd.com If you want to develop a mindfulness practice, reach out to Dr. Liang www.awakenbreath.org *Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice.