Interviews With People Helped By Meditation

September 8, 2023

How I Stopped Being a People Pleaser & Embraced Myself to Walk My Own Path

“No one possesses the ultimate truth. The advice we receive from others is usually drawn from their personal experiences, but it doesn’t necessarily mean their truth will align with ours. This includes advice from our parents. Although they usually offer guidance out of love, their narratives are unique to them and should not automatically become our narratives. We must consciously create our own stories, otherwise we risk blindly following in others’ footsteps.”

Struggled with:
Feeling lost

Helped by:
Meditation
Reinventing yourself
Social support

Case studies

July 13, 2023

Achieving Happiness Despite Autism & OSDD With Self-Understanding and Meditation

“Now, we can identify our emotions easily, we don’t get attacks of emotion so overwhelming we just have to pause the world. We do have feelings that creep up and we do still have some things to work over, but also some of that is caused by the emotional dysregulation caused by our neurodivergence.”

Struggled with:
Autism
Depression
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Panic attacks

Helped by:
Meditation
Reinventing yourself
Social support

Case studies

June 29, 2023

Self-Realization Helped Me Overcome Social Anxiety and My Past Traumas

“Healing just doesn’t come without suffering. When I failed for the first time academically, it hurt. I cried… a lot. And was down for a while until I felt I needed to know myself better. I started meditating and thinking about who I am. What’s my purpose? What am I doing with my life?”

Struggled with:
Anxiety
Childhood

Helped by:
Meditation
Religion
Self-improvement

Case studies

April 13, 2023

Therapy and Self-Care Helped me Overcome Postpartum Depression

“The depression has drained a part of my life that I will never get back. I can’t seem to not see the dark side of things even when I’m fully happy – I feel like it won’t last. I hid it – until the depression manifested itself into an eating disorder. I got very thin, then people started to worry. My parents pushed me into doing therapy as they were very worried about my health.”

Struggled with:
Anxiety
Depression
Eating disorder
Postpartum depression

Helped by:
Meditation
Self-Care
Therapy

Case studies

March 31, 2023

I Developed a Habit of Binge Eating Without Realizing it

“My dad passed away in 2015 and binge eating became a bigger crutch and problems began to arise. I found myself unable to stop eating until my stomach was so full it hurt and my body ached. I’d lie down and wish the over-full feeling would stop.”

Struggled with:
Eating disorder

Helped by:
Journaling
Meditation
Self-improvement

Case studies

March 10, 2023

How Running Helped me Overcome Anxiety and Panic Attacks

“I remember collapsing in the stairwell and I thought I was having a heart attack. The staff that was in the building at the time recognized this as a panic attack and thankfully did not make the situation worse. Nobody there referred me to a counselor or therapist though.”

Struggled with:
Anxiety
Panic attacks

Helped by:
Exercise
Meditation