Man in a white shirt standing outdoors on a walkway, trees and blurred buildings in the background.

Giorgio Fabbri, MSW, LISW

Born and raised in Lucca, Tuscany. Moved to the US in 2013. Struggled with crippling anxiety throughout life, mindfulness and compassionate courage were his Damascus Road.

Evolutionary psychology geek, and trained in various alphabet soups.

She saw that all phenomena arose, abided, and fell away. She saw that even knowing this arose, abided, and fell away. Then she knew there was nothing more than this, no ground, nothing to lean on, stronger than the cane she held.  Nothing to lean upon at all, and no one leaning… 

And she opened the clenched fist in her mind and let go, and fell, into the midst of everything.

— Sallie Tisdale, The Women of the Way: Discovering 2,500 years of Buddhist Wisdom