By the time Sharon Salzberg is 16 years old, she knows the people around her don’t admit to suffering, much less talk about it. A year later, she makes a life-changing decision to travel alone to India to study meditation. It doesn’t all go as expected. Through the journey’s disappointments, discomforts, and surprise lessons, she finds an unexpected friend: herself. In today’s Meditative Story, Sharon talks about how being kind, especially to herself, became her biggest mountain to climb. Each episode of Meditative Story combines the emotional pull of first-person storytelling with immersive music and gentle mindfulness prompts. Read the transcript for this story at:www.meditativestory.com Sign up for the Meditative Story newsletter:http://eepurl.com/gyDGgD Learn more about Sharon: Website: sharonsalzberg.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/sharonsalzberg Twitter: www.twitter.com/sharonsalzberg Facebook: www.facebook.com/SharonSalzberg YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/SharonSalzbergVideo Medium: www.medium.com/@sharonsalzberg Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsalzberg See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.