A Note on Mindfulness — And Why I’m Never Writing About it Again

Gavin Brennan
5 min readNov 13, 2020
That’s not what this is about. Photo by MARK ADRIANE on Unsplash

A note on the word ‘positive’. There’s an assumption many make that ‘positive mental health’ or ‘well-being’ are about being happy all the time, or expressing or feeling happy all the time, or ‘chilling out’ more. Which isn’t true. Or, that the concepts are have been cynically appropriated by corporations to make workers more efficient, under the guise of caring. This is probably…

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Gavin Brennan

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