If you’re anything like me, your day starts the second the alarm goes off—and sometimes even before, thanks to tiny humans who think 5:30 AM is a perfectly reasonable time to ask for cereal. Between packing lunches, work deadlines, school drop-offs, laundry mountains, and trying to remember if the dog ate breakfast, it feels like life has zero margin for pause. That’s exactly why I fell in love with the idea of 5-minute mindfulness for busy working moms. Not 30 minutes, not an hour-long yoga class that requires a babysitter and a miracle, but just five minutes to breathe, reset, and…
