I have been meditating regularly for several years, and while it always helped me relax, focus, and be a bit less reactive in my normal life, I wouldn’t have called it “life-changing” — until one day in March 2020.

Do you live in the present? Or is your brain constantly jumping between the past and the future? Mine was. Until I spent a week in a meditation retreat with a spiritual leader who taught me the power of being present. Back at home and work I’ve tried to stop overthinking and to let go.