Untethered to Rooted

Dana Daugherty
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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.

  1. Episode 15: Facing Anticipatory, Ambiguous, & Cumulative Grief Over Time w/ Susana Baker

    22H AGO

    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.

    1h 11m
  2. Episode 14: Grief & Healing Through Community Organizing & Contemplative Activism w/ Jessica Sun

    JAN 28

    Episode 14: Grief & Healing Through Community Organizing & Contemplative Activism w/ Jessica Sun

    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 as part of her healing journey. We talk about navigating racial discrimination, controlling authority figures, and the mental health system at a young age and how receiving therapy and helping others became a way to survive and make sense of her own pain. Jessica reflects on community organizing as both a path toward self-actualization and a stand-in for healing her family and talks frankly about navigating political burnout and connecting with political activists in community to ground herself again. Jessica is a second-generation Chinese U.S.-ian, community organizer, and former software engineer, currently in the application process with the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods.. You can find Jessica Sun online on LinkedIn, or @JessicaSun on UpScrolled and Spoutible. Links mentioned: principled: https://principled.careers/Anand Giridharadas' 2023 commencement address to Sidwell Friends (pay walled): https://the.ink/p/a-commencement-address"Let Yourself Be Loved" by Philip Bennett: https://www.paulistpress.com/Products/8-482-1/let-yourself-be-loved-revised-and-expanded-edition.aspxNoam Chomsky quote "What does it mean to be truly educated?": https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7360975-what-does-it-mean-to-be-truly-educated-i-thinkLever News: https://www.levernews.com/Drop Site News: https://www.dropsitenews.com/

    1h 9m
  3. Episode 13: Navigating Grief, Platitudes, and Healing as Clergy w/ Angela Farrar Small

    12/20/2025

    Episode 13: Navigating Grief, Platitudes, and Healing as Clergy w/ Angela Farrar Small

    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 acknowledge grief and respond instead. Rev. Angela is a licensed clinical social worker who was a pastor of a small congregation of elders. She has worked in hospice, in HIV disease care, and counseling individuals living with chronic conditions and their caregivers, including families impacted by dementia. Rev. Angela has a private practice and is newly focused on pivoting to spiritual care and spiritual trauma healing as it connects to mental health. You can follow Angela Farrar Small, MSW, LICSW, M.Div., M.S. work at: www.EastSideTherapyAssociates.com and reach out to her at: angela.small.licsw@gmail.com  For future episode drops and information visit: https://www.danadaugherty.com/social  Give us a follow on IG: @untetheredtorooted Disclaimer: The information shared in this episode reflects personal stories and opinions only. The views shared by podcast guests are not reflective of the host's. This podcast does not constitute therapy. The information shared here does not constitute providing medical advice or professional services. The information provided should not be used for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, and those seeking medical advice should consult with their licensed treating provider.

    1h 10m
  4. Episode 12: Grief, Alcohol Dependence, and Intergenerational Healing w/ Averry Cox (Part 2)

    10/13/2025

    Episode 12: Grief, Alcohol Dependence, and Intergenerational Healing w/ Averry Cox (Part 2)

    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 talks with us about how her relationship with her mother impacts and shapes her worldview, and ways this particular type of grief shows up in her everyday life. Connect with Averry on Instagram @averrycoxcounselingFor future episode drops and information visit: ⁠https://www.danadaugherty.com/social⁠Give us a follow on IG: ⁠@untetheredtorooted⁠ Disclaimer: The information shared in this episode reflects personal stories and opinions only. The views shared by podcast guests are not reflective of the host's. This podcast does not constitute therapy. The information shared here does not constitute providing medical advice or professional services. The information provided should not be used for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, and those seeking medical advice should consult with their licensed treating provider.

    53 min
  5. Episode 11: Grief, Alcohol Dependence, and Intergenerational Healing w/ Averry Cox (Part 1)

    10/07/2025

    Episode 11: Grief, Alcohol Dependence, and Intergenerational Healing w/ Averry Cox (Part 1)

    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 how her relationship with her mother impacts and shapes her worldview, and ways this particular type of grief shows up in her everyday life. Connect with Averry on Instagram @averrycoxcounseling For future episode drops and information visit: ⁠https://www.danadaugherty.com/social⁠ Give us a follow on IG: ⁠@untetheredtorooted⁠ Disclaimer: The information shared in this episode reflects personal stories and opinions only. The views shared by podcast guests are not reflective of the host's. This podcast does not constitute therapy. The information shared here does not constitute providing medical advice or professional services. The information provided should not be used for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, and those seeking medical advice should consult with their licensed treating provider.

    59 min

  6. 08/19/2025

    Episode 10: Grief, Healing, and Self-Discovery w/ Mary Serafin

    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 caring for her mom indefinitely, full-time for over a year until she passed. Mary shares her grief and ongoing healing journey that uncovered new aspects of her identity and began seeking healing. In doing so, she paused some of her goals, ignited some new passions, and pivoted to align her pursuits with her newly discovered identities.   Connect with Mary on IG: @marycserafin and by email For future episode drops and information visit: https://www.danadaugherty.com/social Give us a follow on IG: @untetheredtorooted Disclaimer: The information shared in this episode reflects personal stories and opinions only. The views shared by podcast guests are not reflective of the host's. This podcast does not constitute therapy. The information shared here does not constitute providing medical advice or professional services. The information provided should not be used for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, and those seeking medical advice should consult with their licensed treating provider.

    57 min

  7. 05/15/2025

    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:  https://bit.ly/counselingdiversepops 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 For future episode drops and information visit: https://www.danadaugherty.com/social Give us a follow on IG: @untetheredtorooted Disclaimer: The information shared in this episode reflects personal stories and opinions only. The views shared by podcast guests are not reflective of the host's. This podcast does not constitute therapy. The information shared here does not constitute providing medical advice or professional services. The information provided should not be used for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, and those seeking medical advice should consult with their licensed treating provider.

    50 min

  8. 03/20/2025

    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 For future episode drops and information visit: https://www.danadaugherty.com/social Give us a follow on IG: @untetheredtorooted Disclaimer: The information shared in this episode reflects personal stories and opinions only. The views shared by podcast guests are not reflective of the host's. This podcast does not constitute therapy. The information shared here does not constitute providing medical advice or professional services. The information provided should not be used for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, and those seeking medical advice should consult with their licensed treating provider.

    1h 12m
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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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  • Creator
    Dana Daugherty
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Dana Daugherty
  • Show Website
    Untethered to Rooted