Diego Perez

Yeah, I mean, a little stormy sounds nice.

It more so felt like a hurricane.

It was an interesting...

really powerful magnetic connection between my wife and i where we really wanted to be together but we just did not know how to care for each other and we didn't even really know how to care for ourselves at the time either so we felt the strong pull to be with each other but um

We had very little self-awareness between the two of us, very little emotional maturity.

What we experienced was basically a constant blame game for over a six-year period where we were together off and on.

And it wasn't until we started meditating that...

ever so slowly did we start developing our individual self-awareness and we started seeing like, okay, this feeling to place this blame on you every single time that I feel some sort of discontent in my mind, it actually has a lot to do with me and I need to start taking ownership over what I'm feeling.

And that created a whole new chapter in our relationship.

How meditating affected the relationship?

Yeah.

So I think, you know, we both went into meditating because we were interested in our personal development.

I was particularly interested in my own healing.

I had come out of this sort of a number of years of just abusing drugs and alcohol, pushing my body to the edge and doing that to really avoid sadness and anxiety that kept bubbling up inside of me.

All of that led me to like a rock bottom moment where I,

I almost lost my life from just overindulging in drugs and alcohol.

And it...

was a wake-up call and I had started changing my habits, put away all the hard drugs, started really, you know, taking steps forward into a new life.

But it wasn't until I started meditating that I started seeing very significant changes in the way my mind felt.

Like my mind started feeling lighter.