Taking Time For You, Wednesday, Second Period

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"Hey, guys," Vanessa said, "welcome to Taking Time For You. I'm Vanessa, and I'll be your teacher. Now, there are a lot of reasons you could be stressed. You could be stressed because high school is hard and your parents are awful. You could be stressed because you have an undiagnosed anxiety disorder. You could be stressed because you're planning a wedding--hopefully that's just me. You could be stressed because your country is being run by a useless orange baboon and Houston is currently in the process of becoming New Atlantis. We're not here to judge why you need to step back and take a moment, we're here to learn how to do it. And, you know, to put that into action.

"So, why don't we go around the room, and everyone can introduce themselves, and share what's going on to make them feel they need to step back and take some time for themselves, plus one thing you do to relax, calm down, or take care of yourself. Then the rest of the period is free to do something relaxing."

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Re: Introduce Yourselves!

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"I'm Paris Geller and I don't need to calm down," Paris began. "I work better when I'm under pressure--like a diamond, or a nuclear reactor. I'm new to this reality with the giant moron with increasingly uglier hats who seems to think he's in charge despite being a giant moron what is WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE, and I'm already planning for college and I'm wondering what the hell Harvard is going to think about me when I only take seven classes a week like I've moved to some hippie commune and do naked yoga and take Susan Serandon seriously, but I'm fine. Great, even."