the journey
PHOTOGRAPH: LAURA RICHARDSON. *P GOLDIN ET AL, EFFECTS OF MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS REDUCTION (MBSR) ON EMOTION REGULATION IN SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER, ‘EMOTION’, 2010; **STRESS IN AMERICA SURVEY, THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 2017-18; ***YOUGOV SURVEY
There’s something about incense. Not the overwhelming, hippy-dippy 1990s market stall kind, but the fresh ‘yoga class’ peppermint and bergamot, or sweet orange essential oil that can take us back to an exotic land where we vowed to breathe in life a little deeper going forward.