The Untethered to Rooted Podcast
This podcast is a collection of stories around grief and loss and how it intersects with our identities in ways that shape our healing and ourselves. Hosted by Dana Daugherty, a licensed psychotherapist with extensive experience dealing with grief (both personally and professionally), Untethered to Rooted provides listeners with practical tools for healing. Hear from everyday people how grief shapes their identity and how their identity shapes the way they process grief.
Disclaimer: This podcast does not constitute therapy. The views shared by podcast guests are not reflective of the host's.
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Episode 9— Grief, Healing, and Social Responsibility w/ Deborah Osborne
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 how the social movements, activism, and nationwide protests against police brutality and violence in the US gave voice to her own pain and allowed her to process her grief. In this conversation she discusses her experience with individual and collective harm and how that can inform how we care for other people, what are politics look like big and little, and how we can steward care and healing as a community.
Connect with Deborah through her website where there is an extensive book, article, podcasts, and visual artists list and more that is periodically updated to further educate yourself on these topics.
Episode 8— Grief, Community, and the Healing Power of Movement w/ Jen Bunder
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 Seattle's fitness spaces. Jen pivoted careers from an operating room nurse to a psychology grad student to working in the health and fitness space. She especially found that fitness and movement spaces supported her through various seasons of life and career transitions. This has allowed Jen to create and foster genuine community where grief, joy, and all the feelings in between can be expressed and healing can be a possibility.
Connect with Jen on IG @itsabunderfullife and
See what the the be here now community is up to @beherenow.seattle
Episode 7— Grief, Neurodivergence, and Healing from Intergenerational Trauma w/ Chris Hooten
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 intergenerational trauma have impacted their own grieving and healing process.
Connect with Chris at their website: www.chrishootenconsulting.com and on LinkedIn
