Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Muse, the brain sensing headband that helps you meditate, and Meditation Studio, the five-star app.

I'm Patricia Carpice.

We've talked a lot on our podcast about how complicated life can get, and we're all experiencing it even more these days. If you haven't started

meditating, I hope you'll try it. And if you haven't tried the Muse headband yet, it's a great

way to learn to meditate or to deepen your practice. You can check it out at choosemuse.com

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Today's guest is Sabine Salasi.

Sebinay is a renowned meditation teacher, speaker, and author of the new book, You Belong, A Call for Connection.

In this book, she explores the themes of belonging and identity through meditation and spirituality.

She believes that we're all inherently interconnected, and in this interview we talk about this,

along with how meditation has been a catalyst in her life to expand her awareness, reduce

suffering, stay in the present moment, and to generally see her world more clearly. Now, here's Seven-A.

Seven-A, it is such a pleasure to have you on Untangle today. Thank you so much for being with us.

Thank you, Patricia, for having me. I want to start by asking you a little bit about your childhood.

So why don't you tell us what were you like as a 10-year-old girl?

How would you describe yourself?

Oh, wow, 10 years old.

So I was born in Ethiopia.

My mom was Ethiopia and my dad's Eritrean, and we came to this country when I was three. And we moved into a very white upper middle class neighborhood

in Washington, northwest, upper northwest D.C. And at 10 years old, I would say I was pretty confused the life I lived at home, which was not very assimilated.

So we ate Ethiopian food.

My parents spoke to us in Harek.

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