I still catch myself folding under pressure in the most ordinary moments. Someone asks a question a little too sharply and my whole body sprints ahead of me, writing five possible replies at once. But one embarrassingly simple phrase has saved me from psyching myself out: "I need some time to think about this." It's the doorway between the part of me that panics and the part of me that chooses.

Learning the New Ways for Families method reminded me that conflict rarely explodes; it sneaks into the smallest moments, the tight breath before a text or the old pattern that rushes back before you can name it. The training slowed everything down just enough to notice the instinct to react and to choose something steadier. That tiny pause felt like remembering a part of myself I had forgotten.

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