This is the time of year when the anxiety level with my pre-service teachers and teacher candidates are at an all-time high. Some are close to being finished with students teaching and others are wrapping up the last of their coursework. In both cases they are facing Real Life head-on for the first time and it is scary! A mindfulness exercise that I've revised and adapted from a couple colleagues has worked wonders for them (and me!) and has allowed them to focus more on self care rather than school work and finals and graduation and grading and student evals and finding a job and paying for a cap and gown and what am I even doing with my life right now I have slept three hours in the last