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The true story behind my fondness for meditation.

Rosemary Richings
4 min readNov 1, 2019

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When my business was very much a new thing, I made a ton of mistakes that could have been avoided if I had a bit more experience.

Then I tried something equally as new: meditation

It started after my first, bad client experience when my partner said to me:

Let’s meditate together.

At first, I wasn’t sure what to think of it all. Because I’d never meditated before.

Then, I changed my mind after my partner:

  • Took my hand
  • Played some white noise
  • And talked me through a meditation 101 breathing exercise :

Inhale…1,2,3,4… hold your breath…1,2,3,4…exhale…1,2,3,4…repeat

After a few minutes of focusing exclusively on my breathing, I was able to process things with a clearer mind.

Months later, I was feeling nervous about getting my tetanus shot…

So I invited my partner to the appointment.

Because I didn’t want to go alone. Outside of the community health clinic, we did a breathing exercise. We were pretty early, so there was just…

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Rosemary Richings
Rosemary Richings

Written by Rosemary Richings

Writer, editor, author, neurodiversity advocate with a lived experience, dyspraxic POV

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