Sarah Blackburn always felt like she had a low-level dissatisfaction in life. She carried around a sadness and had trouble staying in one city for more than a couple of years at a time. She’d read all the self-help books and tried all the therapists, but it wasn’t until she discovered meditation that things really started to shift. “When I heard that I could create the kind of life I wanted and that I had way more onus over my life instead of it feeling like I had to respond to whatever was coming at me — that I could choose my response — I was like, “All right, let me try it,’” she says. It was difficult at first, but after about three months, she started noticing how her mind works and was able to invite more love, joy, and happiness into her world.
Blackburn has completed two meditation teacher trainings — one at The Interdependence Project founded by Ethan Nichtern and dedicated to making meditation secular and accessible, and the other at the Three Jewel Outreach Center, a nonprofit that is changing the tide of wellness in New York and beyond. In her spare time, Blackburn is the volunteer director of Three Jewels Kids and enjoys making music, cooking, studying Eastern philosophy, and guiding meditation on social media.
