My Break-Up with Cheez Puffs

A meditation on how to feel your feelings

I started 2023 with an 8-day silent meditation retreat. It was intended to be a “relaxing” retreat (anyone who’s sat in silence is laughing at me). I wanted it to be a time to reconnect to my meditation practice, which in recent months had become more of a chronic opportunity to procrastinate rather than a spiritual coming home. The two women leading th…