​​​LARRY ROSENBERG is the founder and guiding teacher of the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a former guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Society, in Barre, Massachusetts. He is the author of three books, Breath by Breath, Living in the Light of Death, and Three Steps to Awakening. MADELINE DREXLER is an award-winning Boston-based journalist and author who has studied with Larry Rosenberg since 2000. For ten years she served as editor of Harvard Public Health Magazine. Drexler's work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Tricycle, Undark, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Saveur, Nieman Reports, and many other publications.