Sanaa Lathan On Why She Quit Drinking Three Years Ago: It Dimmed My Energy & Affected My Anxiety

“I grew up with a mother who taught me about meditation so, I did it on and off. The reason why I came to this practice was several years ago, I went through a lot of trauma. I had a best friend who died suddenly. She was not sick. It was completely unexpected. I didn’t process it. I was in a shock type of situation.”

“I didn’t process it and just kept on being the strong girl, being a strong woman,” she says. “And then several months later, I started having panic attacks. I didn’t know what a panic attack was. Little did I know that it’s a real thing, and I would get three to five a day, even if I was happy.”

She said a doctor later told her she was suffering trauma that she “did not process correctly.”