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Tanja Pajevic - The Secret Life of Grief and Loss

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Health & Fitness

4.2772 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Tanja Pajevic is author of the memoir, "The Secret Life of Grief." She shares the story of how difficult it was for her when her mom died suddenly, and why it is so hard to grieve any loss in our culture. Writing and meditation helped her to ride the waves of grief as they ambushed her well after the funeral ended. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Meditation Studio.

0:07.3

I'm Patricia Carpus.

0:09.2

In this series, we introduce you to real people with extraordinary stories and experts

0:14.1

who share how meditation and mindfulness practices change our lives.

0:18.5

Our podcast is brought to you by Meditation Studio. Apple's Pick as one of the

0:22.7

10 best apps of the year. Why download the app? Because life is messy. We get stressed, anxious,

0:29.5

have trouble sleeping. We work too hard. We deal with conflict. Our hearts get broken. We worry

0:36.1

about the state of the world.

0:38.3

We meditate because we're human.

0:40.3

Our app gives you hundreds of meditations from over 30 leading experts.

0:45.3

It helps a lot.

0:47.3

And if you haven't tried the app yet, you can now try it for free and explore

0:52.3

a Starter series plus a sample of some of our favorite guided

0:55.8

meditations in the Discover collection. You may also want to check out our new meditation

1:00.9

collections this year. Mindful eating, work, authentic leadership, and a special collection just

1:07.5

for college students. There's also a new mindful work and sleep basics course.

1:13.5

If you've already got the app, check out our new unguided meditation timer where you can

1:18.6

create your own meditations with or without our brand new, pretty amazing music tracks.

1:24.5

And don't forget the aid free meditations on Alexa. Just ask her to enable

1:29.0

Meditation Studio. Today's guest is Tanya Pajavik, author of the book The Secret Life of Grief.

1:36.4

Tanya was inspired to write this book after her mom died suddenly and she felt completely alone

1:42.8

and unprepared to handle the feelings that would ambush her after her mom's death.

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