Episode 7: Meditation Mondays with Barbara Chutroo
Barbara’s Lesson 7: Thinking about the nature of a group with women with metastatic cancer and the issues and the struggle that brings up for all of us, as well as of course, all of the other ways in which life has blessed us, so today we will sit and just open up to the truth of our lives
A young woman once said to me not long ago, she said, “You have to have faith.” I was very unhappy at the moment. I said, “Faith in what?” She said, “Faith in your life, that we all, each of us needs to have faith in our lives. But we're living the life that's been given us, the truth of the life that we are experiencing.”
Meet the Guests of the Episode
Barbara Chutroo
Barbara Chutroo has made use of SHARE’s services since her first diagnosis in 2015 and is eternally grateful for all the support she has received. She is a clinical social worker and movement therapist who worked with severe and persistent mental illness in the South Bronx for thirteen years. She also taught psychology and child development at NYC College of Technology. She is especially interested in the integration of body and mind, an investigation she makes use of in her meditation practice. She began to study zen as an undergraduate in 1976 and has continued since then to explore various different meditation practices. The meditation community has provided her with valuable guiding principles for her life and personal growth.
She was born and raised in New York City where she lives with her husband and two rescue cats.
