As we were teaching an 8-week Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program at Singapore Management University, my co-teacher, Carmen Teo, and I were approached by Channel News Asia (CNA) to participate in the Talking Point Series “Am I lonely”, exploring how the practice of Mindfulness can help alleviate the sense of loneliness that many young adults encounter in modern times.

If you would like to dive deeper into Mindfulness, Stress Management and related topics, here is a list of books which have inspired me and taught me a lot on the matter.

I discovered Mindfulness meditation in 2016, as I stumbled across a book by Christophe André* at a small-town French library during a one-year break in my home country. This initiation to Mindfulness followed what I would describe as a “burnout”, experienced after spending four years in the Banking Industry in Singapore, in a highly competitive environment.