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10% Happier with Dan Harris

Alison Wright, World-Traveling Photographer

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.612.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Her body badly broken in a horrific bus crash in Laos, Alison Wright was still trying to breathe as she realized that she may not make it out alive. But not only did she survive, the award-winning National Geographic photographer called upon her years of meditation practice to keep breathing as she re-learned how to walk, overcame months of debilitating pain, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and even got back on a bus in Laos, all of which she details in her memoir, "Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival."

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape

0:09.8

and found me Rob Briden on my podcast. In this series of Briden and I talk to among

0:17.2

others Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

0:23.9

And that's just a few. We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.

0:29.8

It's terrific conversation, reminiscent where appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.

0:36.0

So do join me Rob Briden wherever you get your podcasts.

0:39.7

New episodes of Briden and are available early and ad free on Amazon Music or by subscribing

0:45.1

to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.

0:56.5

The Panic is a new comedy podcast from Wondery that leans into our most absurd anxieties and

1:02.6

defuses them with humor and actual advice. Listen to Don't Panic on the Wondery app or

1:08.8

wherever you get your podcasts.

1:17.6

From ABC, this is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

1:24.3

A harrowing but ultimately uplifting story on the podcast this week.

1:29.7

Really an incredible story from a woman named Allison Wright and you'll hear it soon.

1:34.2

First though, your voice mails. So here's my usual caveat. I'm not a meditation teacher.

1:41.6

I'm not a mental health expert. I'm just a reporter and rank and file meditator.

1:47.8

And I haven't heard these questions in advance. So I just do my best to answer them based

1:52.2

on whatever pops into my head. So here we go.

1:55.5

Hi, Dan. This is Linda. I'm calling because the news of the last few days about these

2:02.6

children being detained in camps has has me so desperately sad and I'm finding that

2:10.2

I want to find some kind of refuge in my meditation practice.

2:19.8

I'm also finding that I'm almost avoiding meditating because then I have to sit down and let all

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