Travel is a powerful tool for so many things but one more way that travel can bring great meaning to your life is by helping you to process grief - and that’s what Amanda's two guests in this episode have certainly discovered. Episode 16 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast features two women who have found travel to be very therapeutic in dealing with grief.
Amanda's first guest is Ava of My Meena Life, an American who has temporarily relocated to Germany, and has travelled extensively throughout Europe in the last year. Sadly, Ava lost her father a couple of years ago, but her experiences abroad have been instrumental in helping her deal with her grief about his loss.

Secondly, she speaks with Kerstin of TravelPilz, who not only lost her husband about five years ago, but then had her feelings of grief doubled when a devastating cyclone hit her town just weeks after his death. She took off on a journey through Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India as a way to process some of this grief and her story is a fascinating one.

Links:
Ava Meena of My Meena Life - mymeenalife.com
Kerstin Pilz of Travel Pilz - travelpilz.com
Hecktic Travels - Surviving this day - http://www.hecktictravels.com/surviving-this-day
Tweet Amanda @amandakendle
Use the hanstag #thoughtfultravelpod
Chat on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/NotABallerina
Show notes at https://notaballerina.com/16

<div>Travel is a powerful tool for so many things but one more way that travel can bring great meaning to your life is by helping you to process grief - and that&rsquo;s what Amanda's&nbsp;two guests in this episode have certainly discovered. Episode 16 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast features two women who have found travel to be very therapeutic in dealing with grief.</div>
<div><br>Amanda's&nbsp;first guest is Ava of My Meena Life, an American who has temporarily relocated to Germany, and has travelled extensively throughout Europe in the last year. Sadly, Ava lost her father a couple of years ago, but her experiences abroad have been instrumental in helping her deal with her grief about his loss.<br><br>Secondly, she speaks with Kerstin of TravelPilz, who not only lost her husband about five years ago, but then had her feelings of grief doubled when a devastating cyclone hit her town just weeks after his death.&nbsp;She took off on a journey through Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India as a way to process some of this grief and her story is a fascinating one.<br><br>Links:</div>
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<li>Ava Meena of My Meena Life - <a href="http://mymeenalife.com">mymeenalife.com</a></li>
<li>Kerstin Pilz of Travel Pilz - <a href="http://travelpilz.com">travelpilz.com</a></li>
<li>Hecktic Travels - Surviving this day - <a href="http://www.hecktictravels.com/surviving-this-day">http://www.hecktictravels.com/surviving-this-day</a></li>
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<div>Tweet Amanda&nbsp;@amandakendle</div>
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<div>Use the hanstag #thoughtfultravelpod</div>
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<div>Chat on Facebook at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/NotABallerina">http://www.facebook.com/NotABallerina</a></div>
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<li>Show notes at https://notaballerina.com/16</li>
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The Thoughtful Travel Podcast with Amanda Kendle is a show for travel lovers. Each episode is packed with travel stories from fellow travel addicts on topics like using foreign languages, meeting the locals, getting lost and what we learn from our travels.

Tales from travel-lovers about why we travel and what we learn from it.

The Thoughtful Travel Podcast

The Thoughtful Travel Podcast with Amanda Kendle - established 2016 - is a weekly show which helps travellers think about how our travels can be good for us and good for the world. We talk about how to make ethical decisions on our trips, sustainable and regenerative tourism, bringing back what we learn from the people and cultures we meet to improve our lives back home, and share the most memorable stories from travelling: fun, scary, educational and more. Most episodes include extracts from conversations with three different guests, centred on a particular topic, but you'll also hear occasional deep dive interviews, recordings from the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, and Amanda's own experiences from travelling past and present.

<p>The Thoughtful Travel Podcast with Amanda Kendle - established 2016 - is a weekly show which helps travellers think about how our travels can be good for us and good for the world. We talk about how to make ethical decisions on our trips, sustainable and regenerative tourism, bringing back what we learn from the people and cultures we meet to improve our lives back home, and share the most memorable stories from travelling: fun, scary, educational and more. Most episodes include extracts from conversations with three different guests, centred on a particular topic, but you'll also hear occasional deep dive interviews, recordings from the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, and Amanda's own experiences from travelling past and present.</p>

In this episode Amanda chats with two women who have found travel to be very therapeutic in dealing with grief.