Recipes for Grief

What a fun conversation this is with artist and death doula Brianna L. Hernández. Brianna shares a few stories about her mom, Miss Sylvia, including her sense of humor and her complicated relationship with cooking. We actually recorded on Miss Sylvia's birthday, so that was really special. Brianna talks about being a grief-y kid and her multimedia art installations that have been born out of caretaking her mom. She also shares ...

In this episode, I have a sincere and heartfelt conversation with my friend and artist Nancey B. Price. She shares about her relationship with the land, the smell of peanut dust, mothering the mothers and honoring the fathers. She names collage art and writing as portals and large parts of her grieving process. It's a beautiful conversation with a lot of depth and soul as well as a lot of plenty of laughter and jokes. It's ...

In this solo episode, I share my mission statement as well as the inspiration for the new artwork (via crystal divination) as Recipes for Grief has crossed the one year mark. I talk about how I've been in a food funk, my Grandmother's sometimes inconsistencies and paradoxes, and introduce "Feelings About Food", fun new mini episodes coming soon.

- When We Meet Someone in Deep Grief poem

- New artwork + crystal div...

Episode 18 brings the waters. Tiffany Joseph introduces herself and her children and shares what she saw when she watched her grandmothers. She also speaks on grief, responsibility and safety. It's much more of a presentation than an interview, and a true honor and delight to share this with you.

Tiffany Joseph is Saltwater Salish of Saanich, Squamish, and Cowichan ancestry. Her work involves feminism and environmentalism t...

Joél Simone Maldonado (aka The Grave Woman) joins Recipes for Grief podcast to discuss Black funeral and food traditions. As we chat, you can really hear us deepening into curiosity, trust and friendship as we venture into the ethics of preserving family stories and AI, as well as the ethics of intuition in death care. Another thing we discuss is how on her podcast, Death & Grief Talk with The Grave Woman, she'll highlight ...

Say the Holy Rosary in French Creole with Mother Dumas.

Alberta (Gauthier) Dumas Robinson was born in Opelousas, Louisiana in 1902. She and her family moved to Beaumont, Texas in the early 1930's, then later migrated to Oakland, California in the 1950's. 

She was known for her prayerful spirit; most Sundays after church, the priests from St. Patrick's Catholic Church in West Oakland would join the family for Sunday supp...

Episode 15: Kitchen Table Talk - Ancestral Connection provides an overview into my experiences of building relationships with my ancestors. In episode 14 with Veronica Wells-Puoane, we spoke about her very easy, immediate ability to relate with her grandmother after she crossed over. For those of us who might have to put more effort into interacting with our ancestors, I wanted to share musings about different types of ancestors (b...

What a joy to have Veronica Wells-Puoane on the podcast! We speak about her enchanting Jamaican grandmother Miss Leanora Johnson, as written about in her multi-generational book Bettah Days. Veronica's relationship with grief is not woeful; her grandmother is very present in her everyday life, so they've maintained a connection that hasn't warranted a lot of sadness. But Miss Leanora life had plenty of grief and we disc...

Welcome to episode 13 with Kristin Tappan. She shares about her incredible and easygoing grandmother Connie, the time she survived a 16-day coma and Connie's visit during said near death experience. Yes y'all...a 16 day coma AND a grandmother visitation!

She also shares about something her grandmother modeled for her: maintaining strong friendships in adulthood, which was *key* to her surviving her near death experience. K...

Episode 012: The Harriet Tubman Episode

Much has been said about Harriet Tubman, and for very good reason, but less attention paid is to her divine intuition that guided her so much in her fight for freedom on the Underground Railroad and during the Civil War. Listen to me dissect the response that Tubman has conspired to answer my question: what is the purpose of intuition?

The time is now. You are the one.

Whatcha Gonna Do...

Gracelyn Bateman shares how she returned to humor after her father died and how his famous cookies, Kip's Chips, were a gift to other grievers even before he died.

Gracelyn Bateman is the co-founder of Luna Peak Foundation and builds the Instagram community @snapshotsoflifeafterloss. She specializes in photography and helping people tell their stories of loss, survival, and resilience within the grief and cancer communities. He...

Carmen Spagnola and I talk about Earth Day 2023, animism and nettles.

Carmen Spagnola is a Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef turned trauma recovery practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist, and kitchen witch. She is author of The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes & Rituals for the Wheel of the Year, host of The Numinous Podcast, and founder of The Numinous Network, an online learning and support portal for people healing from trauma through a ...

Melanie Sheckels shares about sitting at her Papaw's feet and how she intuitively knew how to make his biscuits and gravy.

Melanie Sheckels is a registered nurse and a death, grief and trauma educator/guide, helping hundreds of humans move from fear and freeze into possibility and ease. Melanie founded ‘Threshold Doula’ in 2019 after 7 years as a cardiac and hospice nurse, helping people navigate the healthcare system and dyin...