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This episode mentions suicide.
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I'm Hannah Rosen.
I meditate now and again, or at least I try.
I was once at a yoga retreat where early morning meditation was one of the things on the schedule.
I woke up, sat down, and lasted about 12 minutes,
which felt like 90. I downloaded the Calm app a couple of years ago,
and I have used it exactly zero times.
I have a doctor friend who assured me that meditation was in fact one of a handful of non-medicine treatments
that had been thoroughly vetted by peer-reviewed science journals.
So I never gave up trying.
I just assumed that this was my fault, and I needed to get better at it.
I have definitely absorbed the idea that there is a meditation ideal to strive towards, a master of serene,