Life-Changing Event

My brother died suddenly, and I was just bereft. It was unexpected. He was like the linchpin of our family. At the time I was a journalist, and at his funeral people were saying all these wonderful things about him and how he had impacted their life. And I thought, if I die today, I don't want to be known for writing about changing hemlines because I was in the fashion industry at the time. So it sent me on a quest. I was off work for about three months with deep depression. A friend said, come over to America, it'll be a change of scene for you. When I got there, she took me to this organization called Unity. Part of that was the practice of meditation. I was so enamored by this thing that I would just keep going back to New York, every opportunity I had, every vacation I had, I'd go back to New York so I could experience this thing that they did in the Sunday service.