10% Happier with Dan Harris Sebene Selassie On: Resiliency, Rewriting Your Patterns and Finding a Teacher Who Speaks to You
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Oct 5, 2025 
In this conversation, Sebene Selassie, a Buddhist teacher and author of You Belong, shares her transformative journey into meditation, spurred by her cancer diagnosis. She discusses the profound link between suffering and personal growth, emphasizing how individual paths to resilience can emerge from shared experiences of hardship. Sebene explains her innovative teaching style, rooted in lived experience, and introduces her unique meditation practices focused on present awareness and exploring embodied tension. A truly insightful dialogue!
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Early Spark To Deepening Through Illness
- Sebene traced her early interest to tagging along with her older brother and teaching her first meditation in 11th grade.
- A cancer diagnosis at 34 deepened her practice and led her toward leading groups and teacher training.
Ongoing Illness And Resilience
- Sebene said she's been living with stage 4 cancer for 15 years and still sees herself as a bit of a miracle to doctors.
- She described ongoing pain from bone metastases and treatment consequences, noting today happened to be a better pain day.
Start Teaching By Serving, Not Striving
- Try teaching from experience rather than authority; Sebene started leading when invited and found she loved sharing practice.
- Use feedback from others to notice impact and let that encourage further teaching.
