
Confessions of an Anxious Meditation Teacher
In my role as a meditation teacher I often feel like people don't get a chance to know the real me. They see a curated persona who speaks with a calming tone of voice, someone who spent two years living in a Buddhist monastery and has written two books on meditation and spiritual life. I can imagine those things might give them certain misleading ideas about me. Behind that persona, the truth is that I struggle a lot with anxiety. I don't mean regular garden-variety anxiety,