Mindfulness with Mike

Mindfulness with Mike: Episode 5: "More than My Social Location"


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This week’s mindfulness episode invites you to think about who you are and the description of yourself that comes to mind. Black or white, queer or straight, struggling or secure, we can be secure in ourselves and that is a success. It is avoiding what the Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie calls the danger of having a single story about your life.

“Show someone a single story about themselves, over and over again, and that is what they become.” “Power is not just the ability to tell the story about another person but to make it the definitive story about that person.”


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Mindfulness with MikeBy Western SE