By Gaynor 

Over the many years of cooking for meditation retreats, people keep asking for my recipes. After 40 years of being a vegetarian most are adaptations of ones I have tried on my meat eating family and are now favourites with them. 

 

As an adult I know that the most important thing about food for me has always been the colour. 

So my working title is “The Colourful Retreat Cookbook” 

Panic Disorder and Mindfulness Meditation – A Story by Roger Woolman 

 

I have come to learn that everybody has a story and often a desire to tell it. I have always been reluctant to tell this part of my story. 

I started to suffer from panic attacks around 23 or 24 years ago. At that time, and for two or three years after they started, I didn't know what a panic attack was; I hadn't heard of nor come across them in my life. This may have allowed the problem to embed, to become the norm; either way, they were a significant problem for me by the end of the 1990s.