Monday Morning Conversations with Nancy and Dan

Topic: The Sweet Burden: Grief as a Teacher to Weave Belonging Bio: From her youngest days, Kate Towle has been an advocate for racial equity. As a child, she worked alongside her father and his Black friend to build a vibrant interracial community center in Michigan City, Indiana. She has organized and delivered numerous talks and workshops to help people start a racial and ethnic healing process...

Being stuck in grief is an uncomfortable place to find yourself. When you have experienced a loss and can’t seem to find a path forward, you pause to consider your situation. Are you in grief? Getting unstuck from grief involves : Acknowledging your pain Practicing self-care, Finding social support, and Taking purposeful action to process the loss How do you find meaning again? This can include th...

This episode is about the how you can help someone by asking questions. You can do this to create a comfort zone that allows true communication. When you face the loss of someone or something important to you, you may tend to isolate. By simply asking a question you can make the experience of loss a little easier to handle.

Amy Weglarz is a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach who helps people build strength, confidence, and sustainable healthy habits. Amy explains how grief affect the body- energy, sleep, even appetite- and why is it important to recognize this? As a physical trainer understanding how habits like exercise and building up our skill and tools for life's challenges can be made into a sustaina...

Searching but not finding understanding is the line I sometimes dwell on. This episode explores the masks that disguise or dissuade us from recognizing the pattern of grief that we are wearing. What do we mean by disguises of grief? After doing this work for some time, and walking my own grief journey for almost 25 years, I've come to realise that some of the actions we use disguise our grief. We...

Having good boundaries is important, especially when you are grieving. This episode discusses some tips and shares the lessons we have learned as we struggled with the death of our daughter. Good boundaries can help you manage your energy after a loss.

Jenn Closi’s husband, Phil died of COVID related complications while serving in Southern Nevada. Jenn describes her efforts to get her husband recognized for his sacrifice. She faced opposition to honoring his heroism. Her work with the Southern Nevada Concerns of Police Survivors is highlighted as she assists those who face similar recognition for the sacrifice of their spouses. Jenn’s story is m...

Karen Peloquin joins us in a difficult conversation about the story of her brother, David who died by suicide. Karen’s work involves assisting others who have experienced this devastating loss of a family member and the associated grief that accompanies it. Her brother’s heart felt letter and his struggle is compassionately expressed in her words. This episode contains a disclaimer and refers to 9...

Traumatic events like the plague of school shootings continues to confound us as we struggle to make sense of the events and motivations of individuals involved in these heinous crimes. Gun violence and the grief that it causes to families where children have been lost grows out of the soul grief that occurs when people are taught to believe in one thing and then are confronted with the realizatio...

In this episode we asked returning guest, Joe McCullough to talk about the latest Lyceum Movement topic that will feature an examination of the crisis of male loneliness in our culture. How young men need to be mentored and initiated into society and made a part of the community. These conversations need to be ongoing and focus on the types of solutions that are possible as we look at new ways to...

The Lyceum Movement is an organization that promotes an exchange among different viewpoints and opinions. It has historical roots back as far as Roman times but in the United States it took hold in the 1860’s as a way for townsfolk to become informed through conversation and dialogue. It was recently been reconstituted in the Midwest to engage people in conversation about topical subjects that nee...

Season 2 starts with a guest who offers insight into how conflict is managed and why it takes resilience in our relationships. How this affects community and how accountability plays a role in developing sustainable communities with honesty, trust and knowing how to show up.

Our series on grief in Season One concludes with this episode. When we change an unwanted pattern of behavior we open ourselves to the possibility of change and thereby healing. Listen in as we explore the ramifications of changing patterns and what opportunities arise from it.

As we discuss the difficulties of experiencing loss, however large or small your loss might be. It is important to discuss the resources that will help you get through the unfamiliar feelings and emotions. Talking about the process that you go through can allow you to move forward in your life, even if it is one step at a time. This involves a transformation of thought and feeling that is the goal...

In our conversations we focused on the places and situations where grief might show up for you and how you can recognize and approach the pain you will experience when grief enters.

Monday Morning Conversations with Nancy and Dan explore why having difficult conversations can help you when you are dealing with grief and loss.

We dive into the story of the loss of our daughter and how it affected our lives going forward. Find out how we were able to handle a loss that no parent ever wants to consider.

A few years ago we started a radio program about Being with Grief and having the difficult conversations we tend to avoid. How to get better at having them and what grief can do that prevents us from living the life that we were meant to. We invite you to listen to our story about the journey that grief took us on after we lost our 17 year old daughter and how we found meaning purpose and joy agai...