Mindfulness for Cancer Recovery: Living—and Healing—in the Moment

Twenty-five years ago, Linda Carlson was a graduate student in a clinical psychology class at McGill University when she met a classmate who would become her meditation teacher. He had just returned from seven years at a Thai monastery and offered to lead a small group of students in a weekly sitting meditation. Carlson immediately joined him, along with Kirk Brown, author of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale, the first measure developed to self-report mindfulness. Brown knew Jon Kabat-Zinn,