Hey everyone, it's K-Sunga here. I just want to let you know that we've launched a brand

new call and advice podcast called Dear Headspace. Each week the headspace teachers, along

with some amazing new friends, are answering your questions about relationships, work,

life, mindfulness, and just about everything else. It's so different from anything we've

ever created and we're so excited for you to hear it. Dear Headspace comes out every

Tuesday on the Headspace app and anywhere that you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening.

Hello and welcome to this new week and to Radio Headspace. It's Eve here. I hope you

had a lovely weekend and were able to get some rest. So as a meditation and mindfulness

teacher I get asked a lot of questions and some I get asked a lot. Like, is my mind supposed

to be totally clear while I meditate? And the answer to that is no. Thoughts will always

arise. But the other day I got a really interesting question that I wanted to share with you and

it was how do I continue to practice compassion even when it has been taken advantage of?

And I thought this was so interesting and it actually reminded me of a situation I was

in a few years ago. It was when I was working in London at an advertising agency and one

of my clients who was normally really friendly, kind and respectful started being very critical,

very unfriendly and on more than one occasion was pretty rude to me and the team. And even

though it was years ago I still remember it. Of course being our client I couldn't respond

in the same way. It would have been deeply unprofessional and I would have risked losing the account

and potentially my job. But it felt deeply unfair. It wasn't until I had left this agency

to actually go and work at Headspace that I met up with a friend who told me that she

found out the client was actually going through a divorce and apparently it wasn't going

well. It explained so much. She must have been in so much pain, potentially feeling lonely,

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