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 dying process with greater understanding and confidence. She believes that death is a sacred rite of passage, not a medical event. Even amidst great loss and difficulty, we each contain an inherent, unbreakable blueprint of health and wholeness that we may return to with deep, consistent care and connection.

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Marna Owen shares what she found after opening her mother’s recipe folder while searching for traditional Romanian dishes. 

Marna Owen is a transplanted Michigander who lives in Berkeley, CA. She spent much of her career writing words for other people. Now she is writing in her own voice on her own topics, and learning a little jazz piano on the side. She considers it her good fortune to be Andrea's friend and aunt.

Kashina Bugayong shares about a major car accident and near death experience when she was 12 years old as well as the foods that nourished her during as she healed, bhaji with rice and roti.

Kashina Bugayong is a wife and mother of 2 humans and 1 furbaby who is learning to navigate life with love and intention amongst the chaos.

Who am I and what is Recipes for Grief? Get to know me in this introductory episode!

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Recipes for Grief is a heartfelt storytelling podcast for feel-y foodies that explores the relationship between loss and nourishment. Grief Doula Andrea Sexton Dumas explores food traditions and rituals for death and grief with a variety of guests.