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Joe DiNardo - Meditation and a Love Story

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Health & Fitness

4.2772 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

First-time author Joe DiNardo shares his courageous journey with his late wife Marcia, from cancer diagnosis through death, as told in his new book, "A Letter To My Wife". It’s a sad but hopeful look at the richness of love that explores how the practices of meditation and mindfulness served Joe as his foundation for both coping and healing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.1

Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Meditation Studio.

0:35.8

I'm your host, Patricia Carpeth.

0:59.9

In this series, we introduce you to real people with extraordinary stories and experts who have devoted their lives to teaching and helping others through meditation. In today's episode, I interviewed Joe Donardo. I chose to air this interview Thanksgiving week because Joe's story is about gratitude for the unconditional and abundant love he shared with his wife, Marcia.

1:06.3

It's a heartfelt story that follows his journey with Marcia from cancer diagnosis through her death.

1:13.1

Joe loved deeply, but also accepted that which he could not change. His Buddhist meditation practice was the foundation for coping and healing during this tumultuous time. He wrote a letter

1:19.9

to Marcia as she was dying and shares this along with his story in the recently published book,

1:26.7

A Letter to My Wife.

1:28.4

Joe reads the letter at the end of this interview, and there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

1:34.8

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1:41.8

I would love for you to give it a try if you haven't already. It's in the

1:45.5

app store. Now, here's Joe. Joe DeNardo, it is so nice to have you on our show. Thank you.

1:57.0

Yeah, thank you so much for doing this interview. It was my pleasure.

2:01.3

Yeah.

2:01.9

So let's start by telling our listeners a little bit about your meditation practice, how you started with meditation.

2:11.4

And sort of tell us a little bit about your studies with that.

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