How do you practice presence when your body is betraying you? When anger rises during botched transfers from wheelchair to bed? When the structures keeping your shadow self hidden go limp and you hurt the people who get up at 4am to care for you?

In conversation with poet, essayist and teacher Emily Mohn-Slate, Hanna offers practices forged through years of learning to face difficulty: phrases repeated like rosary beads to interrupt anguish, visualizations for welcoming fear without resistance, the radical softening into What Is. She writes with unflinching honesty about wilting—psychologically as well as physically—and about practicing love for herself and for people who have harmed her.

This interview offers gift after gift: concrete practices, hard-won wisdom, and language for staying human through suffering. Emily Mohn-Slate writes that reading Hanna’s work changed her life. This conversation shows why.