Andrea DesRoches is a graduate student in research psychology currently living in Ontario, Canada, and was originally raised on a farm near a small town in rural Saskatchewan, Canada. In 2008 she began her daily meditation practice as a stressed, hurried, and self-absorbed university student, and has since been trying to introduce more balance, stillness, and kindness into her life. Her other source of spiritual inspiration and fulfillment is the great outdoors, and her passions are landscape photography, cycling, and horseback riding. She also enjoys writing and hopes to do more blogging about her daily meditation practice in order to share her experiences and hopefully help others. Andrea has no plans for what to do after finishing her graduate degree, but instead is trying to live in the moment!