What to do when you get kicked in the gut | How to recover your state of calm | Coping technique

And lately, if I've had a really big— like, I've had some big knocks. There's been lots of tears, there's been lots of hugs. There were some big knocks along the way, and my coping mechanism was to pace around the house and just say, just breathe, just breathe, just breathe, just breathe, just breathe. So I use breathing as a way to push myself through the— you know, when you just like a real kick in the gut or something you weren't expecting or something you thought was going to go another way and it didn't, you can do what I do and pace around the house and just breathe in a very frantic sort of— but it does eventually calm you down.