Untethered to Rooted

In this episode, Dana Daugherty invites her guest La Quanna Cooper to talk about how rest, ambition, and grief can coexist, and what it looks like to choose address your grief instead of not tending to it. After losing her mother several years ago, La Quanna found that travel, something deeply tied to her bond with her mom, became something that pushed her to trust herself and shed old ways of bei...

In this episode, Dana Daugherty invites her guest Frank Ivey to talk about how reflection and journaling helped him in the grieving journey. Losing his father three years ago left Frank overwhelmed, losing hope, and noticing how grief impacts his relationships. In this episode, Frank shares with us about how journaling became his lifeline and helping him unlearn what he'd been taught about mas...

In this episode, Dana Daugherty invites her guest Jean Carlo Martinez to explore how loss and grief opened up deep exploration of himself, his family, and his Latino identity. For Jean, he found that grief was a way to learn about his family dynamics and history and to reclaim his Guatemalan roots and culture. The loss of his father sparked different grief reactions in his family, which unearthed...

In this episode, Dana Daugherty invites her guest Susana Baker to explore the layered grief of loving someone whose health is changing while they’re still alive. Susana shares her experience of anticipatory, ambiguous, and compounded grief as her father’s medical conditions grew more complex over time. Together, we reflect on caregiving from afar, navigating family dynamics, and grieving multiple...

In this episode, Dana Daugherty sits down with Jessica Sun for an honest conversation about grief, healing, and contemplative political activism aided her in the search for something worth living for. Jessica shares how growing up in an apolitical, culturally conservative, nonreligious, and capitalist-focused household led her to politics as a source of meaning, and later to faith and spirituality...

In this episode, Dana Daugherty invites her guest Reverend Angela Farrar Small to explore intergenerational grief and the unique position clergy are in when navigating grief in their congregations. Rev. Angela discusses how responses to grief and trauma are passed down within families and the negative impact of platitudes on grief. She shares why platitudes come up, and healthier ways we can ackno...

In this episode, Dana Daugherty and her guest Averry Cox continue to talk about Averry's experience of grief as a child of a parent who struggles with alcohol dependence, or what is commonly known as alcohol abuse. Averry discovered much of this stemmed from intergenerational trauma that was ever present in her family lineage. As a biracial neurodivergent therapist, writer, and author, Averry...

In this episode, Dana Daugherty invites her guest Averry Cox to share her experience of grief as a child of a parent who struggles with alcohol dependence, or what is commonly known as alcohol abuse. Averry discovered much of this stemmed from intergenerational trauma that was ever present in her family lineage. As a biracial neurodivergent therapist, writer, and author, Averry talks with us about...

In this episode, Dana Daugherty, invites her guest, Mary Serafin to share her experience of grief when her future plans changed quickly when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer immediately after graduating college when she was starting her first job in the working world. Immediately she became a young caregiver in her early 20s balancing a fast-paced, high-stress consulting job while carin...

In this episode, Dana Daugherty invites her guest, Deborah Osborne, to share how her grief transformed at the peak of the uprisings in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. Deborah is a counselor and counselor educator who has a passion for social responsibility and collective action. She discusses the difficulty in processing her grief surrounding the loss of her parents when she was young. She also shares...

In this episode, host Dana Daugherty explores how grief impacts our mind and bodies and how movement can be a beautiful instrument for healing and processing our grief. She invites Jen Bunder—entrepreneur and founder of Seattle cycling studio, be here now—to expand on her personal experience with grief and the loss of her mother. She explores ways to build and heal in authentic community in Seattl...

In this episode, host Dana Daugherty explores grief, healing, and neurodivergence with her guest, Chris Hooten. Chris is a neurodivergent, intersex, and gender-expansive Trainer, Coach, and Strategist who works on workplace neurodivergence. Chris discusses neurodivergence as a framework that is people-centered, opens up the dialogue that is more affirming, and explores how neurodivergence and inte...

In this episode, host Dana Daugherty invites her guest, lizzie anderson, to share her experience of processing grief and loss through the lens of multiple identities she holds, especially as a caregiver/carer, justice lover and activist, person with multiple chronic illnesses, and therapist in community. This is a part two/companion episode to the previous episode, Episode 5 featuring Hanna du Ple...

In this episode, host Dana Daugherty invites her guest, Hanna du Plessis, to share her experience with being diagnosed in her 40s with ALS and the grief associated with grappling with terminal illness. Hanna’s friend and neighbor, lizzie anderson, who is part of her care team, also joins for this episode to support and share some perspective as a caregiver. Hanna shares how sudden illness forced h...

In this episode, host Dana Daugherty invites her guest, Rachel Wahba-Dunkley, to share her experience with the complex grief of sibling estrangement. Rachel is a Coptic (Black and Indigenous people of Egypt) woman who is the daughter of immigrants and shares how her identities have influenced her grief and contributed to her healing. She explores betrayal trauma, complicated family dynamics, and t...

In this episode, host Dana Daugherty invites her guest, Jessica C. Guthrie, to discuss her experience as a full-time caregiver and the ways in which grief and healing have impacted all of her identities. Jessica is an only child and the daughter of Constance Guthrie who is now living with Alzheimer's Disease. Jessica shares how she has continued to process her grief while she navigates being her m...

In this episode, host Dana Daugherty invites her first guest, Ciera Marie Young, to discuss delayed grief. For Ciera, delayed grief meant fully experiencing her feelings of loss almost a decade later. 2020 was the year Ciera began to explore her own grief and ways to heal. You'll hear how Ciera's identities shifted and strengthened as she allowed herself to begin to process her grief and growing h...

Podcast host, Dana Daugherty, introduces the podcast with her own story around grief and inspiration for creating the show. For future episode drops and further information visit: https://www.instagram.com/untetheredtorooted Disclaimer: the information shared in this episode reflects personal stories and opinions only. The information shared here does not constitute providing medical advice or pro...