Apologies for missing a couple of weeks. The end of the school year has been kicked my arse a bit. I should be back to normal now.

[On ‘ability to respond/resilience’] While these sentiments are meant to place power with patients, they also create a sense of failure when patients are repeatedly re-exposed to the sociopolitical causes of distress, When mindfulness encourages self-regulation and the constant monitoring of attention, it exacerbates cultures of social atomisation, fear, and blame.

—Disrupting White Mindfulness, Cathy-Mae Karelse