Justina Blakeney

And one day I was on the throne and my tummy was just feeling so bad.

And I just heard this voice coming from inside and it was just like,

you are not listening.

You are not listening.

She kept saying that over and over again, you're not listening.

And she said, I've been telling you everything you need to know for so long and you're not listening.

And that was a real turning point for me.

I was like, okay, okay, I'm going to start listening now.

And I did.

And so that was really the beginning of my meditation practice, which I was very resistant to.

I'm an Aries.

I have like go, go, go energy, all of that.

So the idea of like sitting in quiet stillness, I was like, can I at least like...

saying, you know, I really like wanted to be active in some way.

Can I read a book while I meditate at least?

Can I listen to an audio book while I meditate?

My therapist recommended I take a class.

And that was really helpful.

I don't think I really would have been able to get into it the way that I was able to get into it without the class.

So I took a meditation class and started meditating and literally just started with five minutes a day.