Dead Folks Podcast

Brooke and Haley discuss generational body trauma and the biological mother-daughter connection. Books mentioned: Hope Edelman's "Motherless Daughters" and "My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies" by Resmaa Menakem.

Haley and Brooke are back in the CMAC podcast studio, after a pandemic break that went a little longer than planned... almost five years longer, to be exact. On this episode, the hosts cover losses they've experienced since the fall of 2020, including the deaths of their loved ones and the death of para-social relationships with former jobs. Notes: • In Haley’s Loss Round Up, she forgets to includ...

Our friend Jess talks to us about losing her job at the beginning of the pandemic and shares how she's been coping in the months since.

Our friend Lia shares her experience navigating a pandemic as a grad student and undergrad instructor.

From outer space to inner breath, places we miss since our moms died and places we miss since the start of pandemic life, Brooke and Haley discuss literal and metaphorical spaces in relationship to grief.

An episode inspired by a conversation Haley had with her friend Cid, the girls talk about physical manifestations of grief and embracing the art of radical self-care.

Brooke and Haley aren't back in the studio yet, but here's an episode from their iPhones.

Brooke and Haley talk about God. Specifically, how Brooke's faith helped her heal and how, as a non-Christian, Haley sought out other methods to process grief.

With Brooke out of town on vacation, Haley discusses caregiving with guest co-host and "dear friend", Heather Parish.

Brooke and Haley discuss the many ways clothing and jewelry tie to death and loss. Areas covered in this episode: shopping for a burial outfit, comfortable clothing for terminal patients, wearing inherited items, clothing with grief-related mantras, artists who utilize deceased people's clothing, ancient mourning customs, etc. 

Brooke and Haley discuss beginnings and endings.

On Christmas day, Brooke and Haley discuss their feelings about the holiday. IE: Brooke loves all of it and Haley doesn't. 

Brooke and Haley discuss the comforting and frustrating things well-intentioned people said to them in the early days of losing their moms. 

Brooke and Haley discuss Pet Loss with their very first live guest, Terry Lewis. Also: an unfortunate run-in with a microphone and some housekeeping from last week.

Brooke and Haley discuss the different methods they use for coping. Included: eating, hoarding, meditating, making art, and not smoking cigarettes.

Brooke and Haley discuss mourning complicated relationships. Also: Hope Eldemann, Mary Tudor, and (of course) having but one listener.

In this second attempt at making a Dead Folks episode (but first actual RECORDED episode), Brooke and Haley discuss the different ways the holidays have shifted for them since losing their mothers. Also covered: difficult relationships, getting older, Brené Brown, grief backpacks, and whether or not the only one listening is Haley's younger sister.