Episode 15 — Facing Anticipatory, Ambiguous, & Cumulative Grief Over Time w/ Susana Baker

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 versions of a parent, before and after loss.

Susana Baker is a lifelong creative and the founder of Untangling Ideas, a values-led marketing agency providing small businesses and organizations with award-winning brand strategy, messaging, and web design. A proud eldest daughter of an immigrant, she’s Colombian-American, fully bilingual, and now based in Richmond, VA with her rescue dachshund, Lucy, where she's become an enthusiastic amateur potter. You can find her on Instagram or Threads at @untanglingideas.