Sebene Selassie On: Resiliency, Rewriting Your Patterns and Finding a Teacher Who Speaks to You

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

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🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

We’re in the midst of an exciting evolution of the overall 10% Happier project. In our quest to make this podcast more actionable – to help you operationalize all the game-changing ideas you encounter on this pod – we’re now offering guided meditations to accompany each full episode of the show, available to paid subscribers at DanHarris.com. For the month of October, those meditations will come from Sebene Selassie, a Buddhist teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition.

In this episode, you’ll hear our executive producer, DJ Cashmere, in conversation with Sebene, who shares her backstory: how she first came to Buddhism and meditation, some of the challenges in her life, and what she hopes to bring to the 10% Happier community this month.

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Get ready for another Meditation Party at Omega Institute! This in-person workshop brings together Dan with his friends and meditation teachers, Sebene Selassie, Jeff Warren, and for the first time, Ofosu Jones-Quartey. The event runs October 24th-26th. Sign up and learn more here!

Tickets are now on sale for a special live taping of the 10% Happier Podcast with guest Pete Holmes! Join us on November 18th in NYC for this benefit show, with all proceeds supporting the New York Insight Meditation Center. Grab your tickets here!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
0:18.4	Hey kids, happy Sunday to those who celebrate Sunday.
0:21.7	Today we're going to talk to the great meditation teacher and a great friend of mind, Sabine Selassi.
0:27.4	We're going to talk to her about resiliency in the face of physical and emotional challenges,
0:32.0	something she understands very well.
0:33.5	We're going to talk also about seeing your patterns and working to change them,
0:36.9	finding a teacher who speaks to you, what it's like to be part of, in her words, the 10% happier family, and much more.
0:45.4	Many of you know Sabine, who has appeared on this show many, many times, and also wrote a great book called You Belong.
0:51.7	You're going to hear from her today because she is our teacher of the
0:55.8	month over on Dan Harris.com for the month of October. That means she will be crafting custom
1:01.6	guided meditations to go along with all of our Monday, Wednesday episodes. The goal with these
1:06.6	bespoke meditations, and you may have heard me say this before, but it bears repeating. The goal is to
1:10.9	help you take the wisdom of the conversations you hear on the podcast and pound that wisdom into your
1:16.7	neurons in an abiding way. It is so easy to hear a great conversation and then forget all about it
1:22.5	because life just pulls you back into your habit patterns. These meditations are designed to counteract the forgetting.
1:29.8	Seb will also, in her role as Teacher of the Month,
1:32.5	be doing a number of live guided meditation and Q&A sessions only for subscribers over at Dan Harris.com.
1:39.3	We do these every week now on Tuesdays at 4eastern.
1:42.6	The next one is October 7th. Sign up at Dan Harris.com and join the
1:46.6	party. Speaking of parties, if you want to meditate with me and Seb in person, we are teaching a
1:52.8	weekend-long retreat from October 24th through the 26th at the Omega Institute, which is north of
1:58.4	New York City. One of our subscribers over on Substack
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