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We all need an escape button.

But we need to find healthy ways of hitting that button. Not through substance abuse or sexual promiscuity or binge eating or stress shopping. But something that works more naturally. I took my method of escape from Legally Blonde. "Exercise releases endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't kill their husbands." Now I don't have a husband (though I wish I did) and I still have urges to kill some people. (I mean, I can't get along with everyone.)

What I do have is a refreshed sense of self, and an opportunity to get away from things and count to 8, wait a minute. Count to 8 again. Wait another minute. Count to 8. Switch. It brings rhythm to a highly irregular life that often has very stressful passages.

Find your esc button. And when you can't take it: Press esc. Release tension.