ABSTRACT
In which I draw back the curtain on the origins of this book on empowering mindfulness for women and invite you to take a glimpse into the conditions in which I experienced a personal and professional split that presented itself for healing. I show why and how I set out to write about teaching mindfulness to/with women in a way that would position them as experts in their own learning, with the aim of sharing their experiences and insights, so that others could hear divergent voices that may otherwise remain silent or, even, silenced. As I show in this chapter, the writing of this book required me to go through something of a dark night of the soul as part of my journey towards empowering mindfulness for women.
