Inviting Your Demons to Tea: A Dance Between Self-Improvement & Self-Acceptance

With humor and refreshing candor, one woman faces off with our desires to ‘self-help’ — offering a new twist on ‘enoughness’ and authentic self-worth

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Around the time I realized that meditation brought me a sense of sustainable sanity and decided to quit dabbling and commit whole heartedly to my practice, I had a meeting with one of my mentors after a weekend-long retreat. We were seated at an outdoor cafe around the corner from the studio space. It was fall. We both ordered chai tea. I was feeling clear, steady, open-hearted and vulnerable after a weekend of practice. So clear and open-hearted that I decided that it was the perfect time to confess to my mentor that I was a terrible