A mother has expressed her heartache after her 22-year-old daughter killed herself during an intense meditation retreat.
Nathalie, from Ontario, Canada, told the Financial Times’ podcast, The Retreat, how her daughter Jaqui checked into a 10-day Goenka retreat in Merritt – but the ‘free spirit’ left early and took her own life.
The podcast examines the world of the Goenka network, which promotes a type of intensive meditation known as Vipassana, which sees people meditate for 10 to 11 hours
February 6, 2024
Deploying the language of “helping” those in need, policymakers are reaching not for a Band-Aid but a club.
Jason Wright holds a sign reading “mental health is not a crime” in Boston on May 17, 2020.
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Amid ongoing emergencies, including a would-be
Bleary-eyed from 16 hours on a Greyhound bus, he strolled into the stadium running on fumes. He’d barely slept in two days. The ride he was supposed to hitch from Charlotte to Indianapolis canceled at the last minute, and for a few nervy hours, Antonio Barnes started to have his doubts. The trip he’d waited 40 years for looked like it wasn’t going to happen.
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Stuart May is living every husband’s worst nightmare.
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A nationwide social experiment launched by a wave of marijuana legalizations is finally bearing results in the form of higher depression rates and addiction.
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The spokesman alleged that
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The mother of a prominent Florida attorney who was gunned down in an alleged murder-for-hire plot described the moments she learned of her son’s violent death – and her continuing quest for justice years later.
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She took part in the session held at the
