I work in homeless services now and help meet people’s very basic needs and try to get them housed. I don’t need you to lecture me about people’s actual experiences, I’ve seen the worst.

Recognizing that anyone can learn to exert more control over their own internal experience does nothing to delegitimize anyone’s life experience. Not only that, I believe it empowers people.

What’s funny is in my anecdotal experience, the group most resistant to the concept of mindfulness are people of privilege