Untethered to Rooted
Untethered to Rooted
Podcast Description
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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The podcast centers around themes of grief, loss, identity, and healing, with episodes exploring diverse experiences such as delayed grief, caregiver challenges, and the impact of chronic illness on loss. Notable episodes include discussions on sibling estrangement, terminal illness, and community care, providing listeners with relatable stories and practical tools for coping with grief.
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.
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 foster brothers, and how that experience shaped her into an advocate for differently abled people. Lexi opens up about surviving homelessness during her final year of college, and how she found healing, discipline, and a new sense of identity through powerlifting. We also explore the tools she leaned on to cope in her twenties, and why those same tools needed to evolve as she enters her thirties and a new chapter: motherhood. Lexi speaks candidly about confronting generational trauma, grieving what she didn’t have, and why she believes there is real courage in knowing when and how to ask for help. She reflects on the role models she needed to lean on throughout her life, and the lessons she’s carried into her advocacy work today.
Lexi Mattocks is a South Korean adoptee, survivor, and advocate whose life has been shaped by resilience in the face of trauma. She’s on the board for the USA Powerlifting Disabled Athletes Committee, and has a passion for spreading adaptive awareness in the gym, science lab, and community.
You can find Lexi on Instagram @lexi_adaptive_athlete or on YouTube @LexiAdaptiveAthlete.
Connect with Dana online:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/untetheredtorooted/
- Monthly newsletter: https://www.danadaugherty.com/socialnewsletter
- Work with Dana: https://www.danadaugherty.com/contact
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