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Left: Man sitting meditating in a leather chair. Text caption reads, "Rawdogging for 1 hour to fix my attention span (day 1). Right: Man sitting meditating in a leather chair. Text caption reads, "Rawdogging for 1 hour to fix my attention span (day 7).

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TikTok announces they’ll interrupt the feeds of teen users with meditation prompts after 10pm

A former New York Teaching Fellow, her writing has been featured in Reductress, Rolling Stone, Mic, Someecards, and more.

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