Mindfulness involves understanding how to live at your most ready, when life is at its most precarious. It involves recognising injustice and doing what you can about it, navigating danger, and reading how power operates. It’s how to survive oppression, economic instability and trauma.

The resilience you cultivate in mindfulness is a social thing: understanding that people survive through networks of care, mutual aid, and shared emotional labour.

Western mindfulness often stops at self-care, rarely extending into structures that promote communal healing. But mindfulness, when it’s not just another wellness industry product, is inseparable from justice. It’s about making space—individually and collectively – to think, grieve, and persist.