​“Hi! How are you doing?” is the line I typically use when I cannot remember someone’s name. I just jump right into conversation so I don’t have to use their name. I have friends who seem to memorize names after hearing them only once. I definitely do not have that skill. I study and test memory for a living, and yet I am really bad about remembering people’s names.
 
Fortunately, I have talked to quite a few people who experience a similar “name-finding” difficulty (not fortunate for them, of course, but it makes me feel less bad about myself).  However, I recently decided that I probably should not just accept my name-finding impairment, and so I decided to do something about it.

Chemo brain, aka chemo fog, aka chemo-related cognitive dysfunction, aka cancer-related cognitive dysfunction.
What is it? What causes it? What can be done about it? Read More to see what I have been learning in my attempt to answer these questions.   

Have you ever tried a mindfulness meditation and accidentally fallen asleep? Or better, yet, tried a mindfulness exercise and became so frustrated with your mind wandering away that it was anything BUT relaxing? What do you do when it seems like "mindfulness meditation" is not working?