Millennial Mindfulness: What It Means to Wake Up in a Chaotic World
Our parents’ gurus have no idea what they’re talking about. This is what it means to wake up when you’re broke and burned out.
by: E.B. Johnson
My mother was the queen of mindfulness and phrases like, “Smile. Decide to see this as a happy accident and a blessing.” While her intentions were good, these sentiments frustrate me even to this day.
Born in the throes of the Baby Boom, this daughter of a World War II veteran lined the walls of our house in books by giants like Deepak Chopra, Louise Hay, Wayne Dwyer, Caroline Myss, and even Eckhart Tolle.
She dedicated hundreds of hours of her life studying their works and ingesting all their DVDs, recordings, and appearances. Thanks to these gurus, my mother was a woman convinced that her struggling, depressed daughter was battling more with her mindset than anything else.
And she wasn’t the only one.
Millions of millennials (just like me) had parents who took the same approach. Infantile in their emotional maturity, they subjected us to even more long-term harm through the demands of their “new age” mindset ideals and their inability to see reality through anything but their…
