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After my marriage ended, but before the divorce was final, I sometimes felt overwhelmed with sadness and anger and anxiety.

Something that helped me get through that terrible period, besides setting my wedding dress on fire, was meditation.

I attended a couple of weekend seminars and evening group sits, and for meditating on my own,

I downloaded a free app with a timer and soothing gong sounds. Gradually, I started to feel a lot better.

I didn't really stick with meditation.

It takes a lot of discipline.

So I'm impressed by people who do.

Like Anne, she's 60 and got divorced about a dozen years ago.

She discovered a meditation-based program called MBSR, mindfulness-based stress

reduction. And not only stuck with it, she's now taking a course through Brown University to become

certified to teach people how to relieve stress through MBSR. She's thinking this will be her

career in retirement.

So I'm just learning how to teach mindfulness this specific eight-week curriculum.

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