I started a meditation practice a few years ago, and it has been life-changing. In this transitional period of my life, especially when I’ve felt myself thrashing and resisting, I look to the practice and tenets of meditation to open up the mental space needed to find clarity and my own truths. I highly recommend the app Calm. It has tons of different programs and guided meditations focusing on themes like gratitude, creativity, sleep, etc. You can set the length of the meditation – anywhere from 2 minutes on up.

For me, this period in NYC is really about concretely planning some next steps and learning how to not be crazy in the craziest city in the world.

Sometimes you need to raze everything to the ground and build it all back up to know what is real. Creative destruction.