Eighteen years ago, I was in the grip of the suffering known as severe Clinical Anxiety. “Try meditation!” well-meaning medics and friends insisted. Of course they did. Meditation is the one-stop-shop for curing all things anxious, right? I remember vividly my attempts. I remember the dark feeling of shame when my attempts failed, the crushing sense of defeat and worse still, the increase of a sense of my own isolation in a space that had no description worthy of its […]