So many of my Body Image Mastery students tell me how much easier everything would be with another two hours in a day – heck, another 15 minutes would come in handy. Our lives are filled to the brim, and the idea of sacrificing any amount of time to sit and just breathe is unimaginable. And yet this is exactly what I tell them to do. Wouldn’t you if sitting and breathing could make the rest of your life calmer, fuller, more joyful?

That’s where meditation comes in. Now, I know some of you Pinkies may see the “M” word and think, “Oh no, this post is not for me. That’s too out there.” But I implore you not to stop reading! I know that the word “meditation” can set off the woo-woo alarm (to borrow a phrase from the incomparable Lauren Nagel). It certainly did for me when I first heard about meditation.