“’If you’re not meditating, you’re a mess,’ Morris told me when we first met. I wasn’t sure what constituted a mess, but I was definitely flirting with the line—exhausted, frequently sick, riddled with anxiety, and at that moment, reliant on cheap wine and Vanderpump Rules for therapy. I ventured to Morris’s Brooklyn apartment to see if she could teach me to meditate, as she has done for Diane von Furstenberg, Michelle Williams, and the six blissed-out women I met at my first group session.

“Morris, whose 25 years of in-depth research into both Tibetan Buddhism and Shamanism inform her work as an ‘awakening coach’ [a type of healer], believes that ‘meditation is the most essential form of self-care.’ And science backs her up: Research shows that it can help lower blood pressure, reduce levels of the stress hormone cortisol, strengthen the immune system, and improve memory.

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