How I Went From Facebook Posts to a Thriving Mindfulness Brand: My Journey to Building a Website
Hi, thanks for coming back to read my blog. I have talked a lot about how I started Mindfully Malignant, but I have two other mindfulness pages on Facebook that I began 11 years ago.
Mindful Me and Mindful Me Kids are the other two Facebook pages that I run. I began both pages with four followers. I made four friends of mine follow them. As of today, I have over 3,000 followers across the three pages combined.
I created a platform that really lets me express my fundamental inner strength: mindfulness. Why is mindfulness so important to me? It’s become like a religion, a core belief that guides me through the good, the bad, and the ugly. So how did a hardcore Irish Catholic from Boston get so into meditation and all of that?
To answer my own question, I owe a lot of it to my mum. She raised me as a strict Catholic, but she appreciated the anxiety relief that she got from meditation and mindfulness. One of her biggest obstacles was driving to work in bad weather, especially blizzards. She was an RN and had to report for duty at the hospital no matter what.
She’d keep the radio off on her ride because the news over-reporting the weather added to her tension and fear. So, as a result, she would pray the rosary, in fact. My mum finds the repetition of the rosary to be her preferred form of meditation. It grounds her, keeps her thoughts on the prayers, and comforts her.
So, I was raised to pray as a way to be resilient and focus on what is in my control in the here and now. Teaching me how to meditate and use mindfulness as a stress management tool is one of the greatest lessons that my mum has taught me.
Until next time, breathe deep and here’s to progress, not perfection.
Bren
