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.

Hi, I'm Dora and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Monday. Before we get to the

start of today's episode, allow me to introduce myself. I'm a meditation and mindfulness

teacher here at Headspace, of course, and I'm a registered psychiatric nurse and a birth doula.

So as you can imagine, I have a lot of stories from my career and passions. But as a dedicated

student of life, I also have a lot of personal experiences that I'm really excited to share

with you all. So thank you for joining me today. As I mentioned, I'm a meditation teacher and I often

have one-on-one sessions with people in my community wanting to deepen their meditation practice

or learn a few techniques. One of the reasons I became a meditation teacher was to offer my

guidance to my community, the black community. So many of my clients just happened to be black women.

Anyways, there was one particular day I was in a client session with someone I had never met before.

And the client I was working with, let's call her Ruby, was explaining to me that in the past year,

she'd experienced the loss of 10 family members, which would be devastating for anyone.

When I asked Ruby what she was hoping to achieve in our time together, she softly said,

I just want to learn how to breathe again. And to be honest, I was slightly taken back by her answer.

And as we continue to talk and connect, she explained that she was the only person in her

family that always had to be strong and stay positive for everyone else. And she felt like she

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