Grief After Dark

D and Micki wrap up Season 2 with recaps, fond memories, laughs, gratitude, real AF friendship, and just a little Aquaman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

This week D's 11 year old son Pierce joins us to discuss chickens, rockets, superheroes, life and death on a farm, the importance of a clean house, and the healing power of being wacky and telling Dad Jokes. Heart = Warmed. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

D's niece Hannah joins us with her 18-year-old perspective on grief, caring for yourself, mental health, and the internet: the good things we find, and some big problems with unsupervised kids perusing the unregulated web. And SO much more. This episode is truly a beautiful opportunity to experience some incredible wisdom about the world and how we move through it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

Naja is a child and family therapist with a specialty in childhood trauma, and works in decolonizing clinical constructs in the world of therapy. In this episode, Naja brings beautiful wisdom on topics like supporting kids in grief, why social media is addictive, how isolation translates as danger, the chemical origins of love, and why “we need to be invested in each other if we're going to survive.” While some of this episode is about kids it's not for kids. We ended on a sentence that contains the trifecta of uncomfortable English words including the mother of all swears. Be ye warned. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

Where and how do you find validation? Could it actually be healthy or even possible to seek it outside of yourself? What does living in love look like? Do you experience in-the-moment tranqility? Can you let chaos just be chaos without responding? We know. It's all easier said than done. But...how ready are you? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

Updates, housekeeping, technology struggles, naps, juggling life, cookies from the universe, etc. You know. Just checking in with our friends. (That's you.) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

Behold, a conversation full of laughter and love with our friend Kim De Los Reyes, aka Kim of the Kings. Kim walks us through how grief made her lose The Music, and the beautiful way she found it again in nature, in movement, and in coming back home to herself. We discuss how we shake it to channel destruction into prayer, the wisdom of how movement can start as simple as going for a walk, and so much more. Come dance with us. Get movin. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

Put on your sexy hat, cuz this week we explore movement and pleasure with Jenny Gal, Ayurvedic Post-Partum Doula, Somatic and Sexological Bodyworker, and Erotic Blueprint Coach. Jenny works to help clients in reclaiming sacred sexuality in motherhood, and supporting women's healing and thriving in post-partum care. We expose a LOT of proverbial skin here, so listen with...well...we'll always tell you what to listen with in our intro. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennygalofficial/ Erotic Blueprint: https://missjaiya.com/view/coach-directory/entry/735/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

D and Micki join Kiva Siani - burlesque dancer, strip tease artist and creator of the Sensual Moms Group - for more yummy fun pleasure tidbits about moving through grief. Kiva uses the principals of practice, pleasure and play to help us re-parent and re-write ourselves in our lives. Instagram: @kiva.siani ; @sm_circle --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

The first episode of our newest theme, Moving Through Grief, is a chat with Jamie Asdorian, a Tharavada Yoga Instructor helping us find our way back to self-trust and inner wisdom through slow, meditative practices. Jamie is also a practitioner of Vegetation, a unique type of meditation discovered through her yoga and life experiences and learnings. Jamie talks with us about ancestors, the roots of yoga, how connection is there for everyone costing a sum total of $free.50, and reminds us that everyone has worth. Sit with us! Find her on IG - @tharavadayoga Find her Podcast - Vegetation: Meditation in Community Find her on FB - https://www.facebook.com/TharavadaYoga/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

This week D and Micki join in a conversation with Gina Harris, CEO of Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, a non-profit providing the gift of remembrance portraits to parents experiencing the death of a baby. Gina uses her beautiful and candid ability to tell us her own personal stories of loss, her work with NILMDTS, and the importance of how we capture love and treasure memories. It's important to note that this episode speaks openly about infant and child death. Please take care in listening. https://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

In this episode of Season 2, Dark Matter, D and Micki get to speak with Joe'l Simone Anthony, aka The Grave Woman. Joe'l is a Sacred Death & Grief Care Practitioner, a Course Creator & Educator, a Licensed Funeral Director & Embalmer, and an Insurance Agent & Preplanning Specialist. She is a prolific educator teaching from seemingly every angle of grief, death and planning - financial to spiritual - especially for people of color. This one has it all: astrology grief guidance, healing regrets while you still can, following your path and passions, meeting middle earth people and aliens... Join us. It's fun over here. https://www.thegravewoman.com/ The Grave Woman - YouTube @thegravewoman on Instagram --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

In this second episode of Season 2, D and Micki talk with Tony Lynch, creator of Memories of Us, a nonprofit international resource for grieving men. Tony tells us about his own personal life and grief experiences, we talk about how men are "taught to suppress rather than express", and the many complexities of grief from men's points of view. "...Understanding the journey is lessons that need to be learned by the challenges you go through." https://www.memories2.org/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

Welcome to Season 2: Dark Matters! Come hang out as D and Micki ease right on in to a brand new Season of experience. We are still showing up with laughs and epiphanies and good times. We hope you do, too. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

Who's expecting too much from you this holiday season, and how much are you (over) expecting of yourself? Join us in this holiday vent session where we take some time to remind ourselves of how this time of year feels, and why, and that it's all ok. Even if it's not. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

The Randosodes begin, and thus continues D and Micki's journey with you! In Randosode 1 we discuss thoughts on our habits to compare our pain, grief, suffering, emotional state, ability to be productive, etc. And thoughts on how we all need to cut it out. Can you randomly relate? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

Giving thanks to so many for so much. That is all. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

D takes some time to talk to us about her life as a prolific artist and her Adventures of Grief Girl. Singing, dancing, painting, photography...our talented friend has seemingly done all things art, and is full of fun and wisdom about the process of creation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

A quickie about Micki's obsession with jewelry-making, gemstones, and other various passions as she shamelessly self-promotes her art and business, Moonstar Charms. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message

Micki takes the STFU Challenge and her struggle is real, while D offers modern wisdom about how we get desensitized to noise. The quest for meditative peace continues. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/d051/message