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My month off alcohol turned into 2.5 year
Rory writes in the Sydney Morning Herald about his alcohol journey and how meditation inspired him to quit.
What's Your Meditation?
Rory appears on the McUniverse Podcast alongside Harvard neuroscientist Sara Lazar to talk about why rock climbing or having a glass of wine might be enjoyable, but they’re not meditation.
How to stop drinking
Rory joins his colleagues Rich Muir and Carly McDowell from The Happy Mind Project to talk about his alcohol journey and why being in isolation is the best time to quit drinking.
A day in the life of a meditator
Rory writes for Thrive Global about his daily meditation routine and how thought-filled meditation should never be considered a failure.
What I learned from a year of not drinking
What it’s like to quit drinking for a year – the benefits, pitfalls and tips on how to get through it.
"IT WAS ALL DRUNKEN FUN FOR YEARS AND THEN I HAD A PANIC ATTACK"
We all have our ways of dealing with stress. For Rory it was alcohol, but after more than 20 years of mind-numbing drinking – and the crippling hangovers – he went in search of an alternative way to quiet his mind, he tells Franky So.
The Sober Truth
Rory wrote about how a week of the booze turned into a year and beyond. Featured in Sydney lifestyle magazine Local East.
The week I went VIRAL
Rory created a guided meditation for hangovers and then watched as it became a viral beast of its own and went off on news sites around the world from Romania to Brazil, Thailand to Kenya after being featured in the Daily Mail.
What happened when I gave up drinking for 100 days
Rory writes for nine.com.au about his experiences cutting out the booze in 2018. Read how he handled the social anxiety, the peer pressure and how he increased productivity and attained a greater general sense of wellbeing as a result.
I finally learned to meditate
9Coach editor Sam Downing writes about his experience learning to meditate with Rory. "Successful meditation," he writes, "is not sitting serenely in the lotus position surrounded by total silence, without ever fidgeting or scratching an itch or accidentally falling asleep, and it's definitely not holding your mind free of thoughts. Your mind is expected to wander — and allowed to."
FROM BOOZE HOUND TO MEDITATION TEACHER IN TWO YEARS
Rory writes about his journey from being a hard drinking party animal to becoming a meditation teacher. "What I've found," he writes, "is there's a sweet spot when your addictive personality finds something that's good for you."
7 Activities Anyone Can Do To Feel A Sense Personal Achievement
Katherine Chatfield quotes Rory in The Huffington Post talking about how meditation can give you a sense of personal achievement. "It allows you to step back from the coalface of life and gives you perspective. It leaves you with more conscious capacity to stretch yourself in all areas of your life."
How to stick to your New Year's resolutions
Brigid Delaney in Executive Style says that when picking a resolution, the best ones are those new habits that can integrate easily into your life, are low cost and can become new habits over time – like meditation.