Breathing Wind

This is a bonus episode, and it deviates from the format of what I’ve been producing so far. I have been operating mostly on pause due to travel to France and Spain, as well as dealing with the general fatigue of jet lag and self-quarantine after. I recently heard about a close friend passing away from cancer. She is the daughter of Anne Marie, whose interview I published in February.

In this episode, I talk about:

• My best friend from high school, Melissa.
• Our friendship and its lasting meaning for me.

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When someone passes, how do we honor their legacy? Through doing or by being?

In this episode, I interview Dr. Haakon Faste, a design educator and innovation consultant. Dr. Faste discusses growing up with a father who encouraged him to be a maker and designer, as well as how that has shaped his outlook today as an educator.

Dr. Faste talks about:

• His father’s perspective on education, design, and other interests.
• The experience of being with his dad during one of the last weeks of his life.
• The importance of preserving his father’s legacy in the way he lived.

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Does being adopted change our relationship to our parents?

In this episode, I interview Anne Marie, a social worker, about the experience of losing her mother and father, and how being adopted fits into her experience. Anne Marie is my best friend’s mother. Her daughter is currently facing a scary battle with cancer, and she faces grief again.

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In our lives, what are the defining moments? How about who is in our life, our family or our friends? In this episode, I interview Benjamin Gunning, a leader at a global design firm who is also a nationally recognized philanthropic advisor, and Treasurer of the Board of Trustees at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California.  Benjamin discusses what it was like to lose his parents, undergo a long period of grief before loss, and grow closer to his family through it.

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"Death is not a separation, especially energetic-wise."

How do we stay connected after losing our loved ones? Ebony Carter, a yoga therapist and Assistant Director at the Healing WELL, talks about how she stays connected to her father, as well as the experience of losing her father, her father’s trauma, and how her grief has appeared in her life. 

Ebony talks about:

- Her traumatic loss as well as her views on her father’s past trauma after becoming a yoga therapist

- Parenting while knowing that life is short, as well as how close birth is to death

- Feeling energetically close to her dad since he passed

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My goal for this podcast is to share stories about parent loss and grief, so that we, as a community of peers, can move through life with our grief. I know you’ll find that these stories are as much about life as they are about death. And, I hope you’re able to find a way to live with your grief by knowing you aren’t alone in your journey.

Sarah Davis is a learning experience designer in the Bay Area who focuses on empathy and storytelling in learning design. She lost her father to cancer in 2016, and since then, has been exploring her relationship to loss, grief and mortality through hiking, spirituality, community, and writing. This episode covers her story, and why she chose to create a podcast on grief and parent loss.

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