Presence is not performance. It is the courage to remain—in the discomfort, the doubt, the moment. Especially when the body wants to retreat.

Each time we practise, we widen our inner space. So we can hold more of life. So we don’t shut down when it gets too much. So we don’t collapse under what we were never meant to carry alone.

And when we do that—again and again—we become the ones others feel safe beside.