Seven Steps to a More Mindful Day
6 min readMar 11, 2019
I have been practicing mindfulness and meditation for over eight years. It was a slow transition after I was diagnosed with a rare genetic disease called Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) when I was 24 years old. At the time, I left my career in 24-hour television at CNN and returned home to New Orleans to recover. Up until that point, I had lived with the debilitating disease undiagnosed for most of my life.
