Untethered to Rooted
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.
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Episode 20: Sibling Loss & Talking to Kids About Grief with Melissa Braunworth (opens the original)
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In this episode, Dana Daugherty invites my guest Melissa Braunworth, a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California (lic # 129701), to explore sibling loss and how to talk about grief with kids. Melissa brings both professional and personal experience to this conversation, having lost her younger brother to a two-year journey with advanced stage cancer, just two weeks after her own engagement. In the years since, she’s navigated major life milestones, such as growing her family an
Episode 19: Foster Care Grief & Disability Advocacy: Turning Pain into Purpose w/ Lexi Mattocks (opens the original)
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In this episode, Dana Daugherty invites her guest Lexi Mattocks to share her powerful journey of surviving foster care adversity and finding identity in becoming a survivor and a community leader. Lexi grew up in an abusive household where she became the whistleblower for her family’s struggles while dedicating herself to protecting her seven foster siblings, often sacrificing her own goals to keep them safe. We talk about what it meant for her to become a guardian for her severely disabled fost
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