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Hi @honeybadger

To answer your question about maintaining a meditation practice, I had a teacher once quote Jon Kabat-Zinn, “You don’t have to like it. You just have to do it.”

I believe it’s like any other self-care ritual. We brush our teeth and bathe every day. We comb our hair. We do things to take care of our physical bodies. We don’t stop brushing our teeth just because they were clean yesterday. It’s maintenance. And we need to do the same things for our minds.

I am just as guilty of letting the practice go when things get better...but I always feel it’s that much harder to get back to good after a rough patch if I haven’t been consistently meditating. I encourage you to incorporate it into your morning or evening routine, just like all the other things we find time to do in our days.

There is always time to take care of our mental health. We all have to make it a priority.

honeybadger - I just listened to an audiobook called Present Over Perfect. It was utterly lifechanging and I believe it would be of great use to you. If you have a library card, you can listen to it free on the Hoopla app...

Check out Present Over Perfect #hoopladigital https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11706318