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Becky Davidson, is an incredible woman! Her work is groundbreaking and she is doing things that will change the way we think about education, and how to practice and teach emotional management and work through being uncomfortable. Becky Davidson, Teacher, Coach, Friend, and incredibly wise and creative human, comes from a wonderful family of storytellers.\n\xa0\n\xa0\nFrom an early age she began to learn why people she loved would turn to drinking and smoking often in their lives. When we don't want to face certain uncomfortable emotions that come, we tend to use substances enabling us to forget or escape. Becky lost a younger brother to alcoholism, and a mother to lung cancer due to smoking, Her father is also an alcoholic and it has been hard for Becky to see those she loves suffer as they have turned to these options.\xa0 On her way home from teaching a college class at Utah Valley University, Becky recognized that she didn\u2019t \u201cbring it\u201d to the class today, and as a result she let her students down.\n\xa0\n\xa0\nBecky started to get curious about why she was feeling the way she did, it was uncomfortable. As she dove into what her feelings meant, she recognized that she wasn\u2019t giving her self grace which is something she has always tried to give to others. She learned that the inner voice, we often give space to, is very loud in our lives and got curious to learn more about it. That said, She began to give her self permission to be a \u201cLearner\u201d when the uncomfortable feelings showed themselves, so she could learn from them in an effort to understand them.\xa0 Becky talks about some of the trait\u2019s we pass onto/receive from family members. She saw that members of her family would become very disappointed and down on themselves and she began to recognize that she was doing the same thing.\n\xa0\n\xa0\nAs a determined learner, she committed to \u201csit\u201d with her uncomfortable inner critic, she began meditating (sitting) and as a literary researcher she found some amazing people who were guides of meditation and she began feasting on their practices. This is where she truly began \u201csitting\u201d. Early on she discovered that the uncomfortable feelings we feel such as pain, anxiety, fear, move through us. Emotions do not come to sit inside of us and stay forever, they truly move through us. She said \u201cWhen we become comfortable in our own minds, if we are willing to sit, we learn that we are optimized and we have the power and ability to allow these feelings to move through us and learn from them\u201d.\xa0\n\xa0\n\xa0\nBecky teaches that \u201coften times we contract around the feelings we don\u2019t want to feel, and when we do this we in a way choose to keep that feeling we don't want within us. Uncomfortable feelings will move through us if we allow them, and when they do we open ourselves to enlightenment on the other side of those feelings, which enables us to discover other feelings that exist within us that we are also holding on to." "As soon as you sit and get quite, whatever needs your attention comes to the surface. The more you sit the better you get at identifying the feelings and what is causing them."\n\xa0\n\xa0\nIn her research she learned that naming the emotions or \u201cdemons\u201d is a good idea, and while you sit and the "demons" surface, we can talk to them by name. Doing this allows us to have a friendship with those emotions so we can learn from them and understand why those feelings come.\xa0 \u201cWe can\u2019t always choose the thoughts that pop into our head, but we can consciously choose the memories that we want to embrace and carry with us.\xa0 After learning to \u201csit\u201d herself Becky was equipped to respond to her son and daughter at times they were in need. Her children were dealing with some anxiety and fear, and Becky worked individually with them, teaching them to \u201csit\u201d and feel their own emotions. To help active kids learn to \u201csit\u201d she followed an impression she received to tell a story while they practiced meditating. The stories she shares involve \u201cjourneyer avatars\u201d who have an adventu