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Grief After Dark
by D. & Micki
Commentary about grief, love, life, and resilience. Lifelong friends D Anaya and Micki Hassemer explore the depths to which grief can sink into our beings while discussing how they survive, and how they live. Join us as we share our life adventures, love, beer, wine and laughter.
Episodes
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More Than the Sum of Our Grief
D and Micki wind down the Season 5 journey just in time for a solid 2026 New Year's rest. Join us for a reminder and a moment of gratitude that we are all SO much more than what we do.
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Bonus: Messaging Grief and The Next Generation(s)
Join D and Micki in some revelations about the messaging we are inundated with these days, including ways information gets passed on and what that's looking like for both the older and younger generations.
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Parental Grief
Join D and Micki in a conversation about the loss of aparent - or the idea of one - be it to death or choice. The processing of this deep and specific wound, as with so many types of grief, is a life-long experience. We’re here for it.
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Abusive and Estranged Grief
Join D and Micki as they confront some very complicated grief. The confusion of mourning an abusive relationship. The pain of being estranged, even when you know you’re better off without them. It's hard. Community matters.
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Relationship Grief
Grief is in all parts of our lives, and can be especially hard to navigate in relationships of any kind. Join D and Micki to observe just some of the many angles of love and loss.
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Hormonal Grief Part Deux
In the first Hormonal Grief episode, D and Micki explored some of the struggle around life changes, particularly when there isn't much by way of cultural rites of passage to help ease the experience. In Part Deux, we take a look at how we can each create our own rites through how we interact with...
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Witchin' Ain't Easy - The Halloweenisode
What can we say - it's a magical time of year and deserves it's own episode! Join D and Micki to talk about all things autumn: shifting, quieting, ritualing, eating, grieving, rinse and repeat. It ain't easy but it sure can be lovely sometimes. Especially when we can appreciate it together.
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Hormonal Grief
AKA The Hormonisode! D and Micki invite you to the big chat about the great adventure of being a woman of a certain age. May you find some new tips and tricks and feel the camaraderie within the hormonal grief.
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Bonus: Intimate Questions
D and Micki explore the Gottman Card Decks - an app full of interesting questions to build connection, intimacy and understanding. Take it home, take it to heart, learn more about us, about other loved ones, and most importantly about you. Turn towards. https://www.gottman.com/couples/apps/
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Where Is This Grief?
Grief can often have massive influence on our bodies. Join D and Micki in a chat about ways that grief affects and resides in the body - how that works and ways to work through it.
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What Is This Grief?
Language can really help with understanding and processing any emotional experience. Join D and Micki as they go through a short list of types of grief: complicated grief, anticipatory grief, disenfranchised grief, collective grief, abbreviated grief, delayed grief, and secondary loss. May it…
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Season 5: Dark Canvas
Welcome back to the Grief After Dark party! D and Micki are back with Season 5, Dark Canvas, the platform on which grief is able to be painted in the truest of light. Join the conversation for a catch-up, a reflection, and a continuation of the life and grief journey. We are either gonna go…
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The Art of the Apocalypse with Josh
Anyone else feeling sort of...apocalypsey…these days? Us, too. Join D, Micki and our good friend and former guest Josh as we explore what to do when the toilets don’t flush anymore. At the very least, we shall be banding together with our absolute favorite people and all their superpowers.
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The Art of Boundaries
Creating, maintaining, revisiting and enforcing boundaries are, fortunately or unfortunately, an ongoing affair. It’s also an ongoing challenge, and yet another thing that nobody should be choosing for you. Repeat after us: my boundaries are not less important than other people’s feelings, and…
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The Art of Taking Things Less Seriously
Deciding the things we do and do not take seriously is a personal journey, especially when grief is present. What we share, where the boundaries are drawn, what’s important to us - so often we don’t even really understand why we react the way we do. Discover and draw your own squishy lines.
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Bonus: The Art of Splitting Yourself in a Million
Where the thoughts started out with how much more we wish we could do, and we end up in big self-gratitude for how much we're already doing. Expectations and but-ifs and what-about-isms be damned. Welcome to The Dark Tip of The Bonersode.
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The Art of Splitting Yourself in Seven
Anyone else feel like they could really use a clone or 10? It's grind culture, but it's more than that, too. Join D and Micki as we explore art, AI, the work/pleasure struggle, respecting what we love, and how we end up at the bottom of our own to-do list. If you could split yourself in 10, which...
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The Art of Healing With Jenn
We gather with Jenn to scrape the surface of the big world of healing. Reiki, Chi Kung, therapy, touch, care for the elderly, vulnerability – this is a life-long process of unpacking grief and healing is not linear. Turns out even your problems have problems. Still, the cards confirm that you are...
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The Art of Aging
Grappling with the aging process - the grief and the freedom within it, and where some of these feelings come from. Life is not for the faint of heart and the longer we last the more interesting things get. Happy aging, everyone. It beats the alternative.
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The Art of Forgiveness
Join D and Micki for a conversation about The Art of Forgiveness aka The Forgivisode. Sort of a Part 2 to The Art of the Apology and sort of it's own thing altogether. What does forgiveness mean to you? Who needs it? We all get to draw those lines where we choose, but it may BEHOOVE you to ask…
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The Art of the Apology
This one right here...D and Micki were excited about this one. And frankly, don't feel the need to say a whole lot more than the title. Listen, relate, and wherever you may be, yell all the appropriate things when you see fit.
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The Art of Being Donovan
Another great conversation with a fantastic human! D and Micki chat with D's childhood friend Donovan about why social media isn't necessarily the worst, leaving space for life and death disruptions, navigating racism, family loss, vulnerability, support between men, where the warrior resides…
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The Art of Participation
What you participate in and why is worth noting. We say: it's not about being great, or perfect, or how other's think you should show up. It's about the pure pleasure and discovery that can be found in participating without expectation. As D says - your magic works the way YOUR magic works, not…
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Season 4 - Dark Arts
Welcome to Season 4! Now, we did in fact start recording in January of 2024 and here we are in September dropping our first episode, but what had happened was…life. Life happens, sometimes with a beating, grief currency is a thing, time is an illusion, and we are still showing up and getting back...
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The Keep Glowing Until Next Timeosode
D and Micki end the season with another fun, open, stream-of-consciousness-style conversation that goes from Star Trek, to showing up for our own excellence, to allowing harm, to the limitations in our belief systems and in own damn narratives. So much of Season 3 was about the ties that bind....
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Shelley Leiphart - The Glowing Mind
Shelley Leiphart is a psychologist and neuropsychologist working in healthcare ethics, and boy did she bring some expertise to the GAD party this episode. She explains part of the trauma experience as a loss of innocence, sense of self, goodness, safety and justice, and how therapy can help break...
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Kristi Gerhardt - Glow in the Very Dark
Kristi Gerhardt joins Grief After Dark today with a beautiful and honest perspective on living with clinical depression. Not being sad when things happen. Not good ol’ fashioned teen angst. We’re talking the deep dark hopelessness that is one of the most common and also most undiagnosed struggles...
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Perfectionist Impostor XL Bonersode
Here's some words for you: Perfectionist, impostor syndrome, eggshells, praise kinks, flimflam artist. D and Micki’s 20 minute bonus episode ended up being 40 minutes because there was simply too much to talk about. How much can you relate, though?
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Dr. Mekel Harris - The Glowing Journey
Dr. Mekel Harris, butterfly chaser and licensed psychologist with a focus on grief counselling and education. We reflect on allowing space in our lives for what we want and need, bereavement leave and grief-informed care in the workplace, de-colonizing psychology with cultural curiosity, and good...
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Glowing Feels - The Empathisode with D and Micki
This week enjoy some both/and with D and Micki as they discuss The Plight of the Empath. What is empathy, and what is it to be an empath? Is it learned or inherited? Is being a highly sensitive person a blessing? Or is it a curse? Sometimes the best conversations are the ones where the answers…
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Funk and Glow with D and Micki
Sincere hardship and trauma vs. self-victimization. Small hurdles and big rewards. Moments of resilience. You know – just a little life catch-up, D and Micki style. Sometimes the hard shit is where it’s at. We are your cheerleaders, friends. Thank you for being here.
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Joshua Liberman - The Glow of True Family
This week Joshua Liberman joins D and Micki in a conversation about family estrangement. Because you all know how we do love a good difficult and vulnerable conversation amongst good friends! This reflection is truly a reminder of what true family and love looks like, unfortunately learned by...
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AJ Turner - Glowing With God
You don’t “arrive” at spirituality. Divinity is not static. Enlightenment is not “a thing.” We can’t talk about spiritual growth that doesn’t involve psychological death or spiritual death. So…where does that leave us? With spiritual COMMUNITY. Who knew? AJ did. AJ Turner is currently finishing…
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Katya Fishman - Stories All Aglow
Hope vs faith. The toxic side of control and certainty. Honoring where you came from. The story we tell ourselves paints the portrait of our experiences. This week, our new friend Katya Fishman brings us all a story of healing, beauty and perspective. Join us! Find Katya on her website:...
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Knit After Dark - Lynsey Powell Glows
Lynsey Powell joins D and Micki this week to talk about her lupus diagnosis, feeling betrayed by your own body, the benefits of allowing yourself to sit in grief, and how to handle when people “at-least” you. Pain that others can’t actually see can be a tough one to carry. Good thing knitting can...
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Glowing Memories With Estevan Vigil
At 34 years old, Estevan had an accident that caused a traumatic brain injury, leaving him with dissociative amnesia and hitting the reset button on virtually everything he knew. His journey of learning and re-learning has led him to some incredible insights. Hop in on this incredible opportunity...
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Season 3 - Glow in the Dark With Tim Hassemer
D and Micki are back with Season 3, Glow in the Dark! This season will once again explore the many facets of grief with a special focus on grief that isn't death. Special guest and Podcast Editor Extraordinaire Tim Hassemer shares his own difficult experience, and the book he wrote that helped…
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Happy New Yearosode
D and Micki reflect on the year past and the year that is to come, discuss what New Year is and can be, and celebrate the ability to see when to dig in and when to coast. It's never too late for a glass of champagne, and any time of year is a good time to celebrate.
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Grief After Dark Special: Ask Grief Girl 2022
For this special Grief After Dark Episode, Adventures of Grief Girl gathers bereaved mamas from around the world to answer questions sent in by friends and family who want to support bereaved mothers and families more fully. Join Jamie (our facilitator), Tina, Kim, Domenique and D as they dispel...
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Turkey Bonersode
Deck the motherf*^*in halls and get yo kids. In this Turkeysode, D and Micki reconvene to give thanks for the simple joys of walking the talk during the Season of Expectations. And always.
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Until Next Time
D and Micki wrap up Season 2 with recaps, fond memories, laughs, gratitude, real AF friendship, and just a little Aquaman.
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Grief and Kids With Pierce
This week D’s 11 year old son Pierce joins us to discuss chickens, rockets, superheroes, life and death on a farm, the importance of a clean house, and the healing power of being wacky and telling Dad Jokes. Heart = Warmed.
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Grief and Kids With Hannah
D’s niece Hannah joins us with her 18-year-old perspective on grief, caring for yourself, mental health, and the internet: the good things we find, and some big problems with unsupervised kids perusing the unregulated web. And SO much more. This episode is truly a beautiful opportunity to...
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Grief and Kids With Naja Druva
Naja is a child and family therapist with a specialty in childhood trauma, and works in decolonizing clinical constructs in the world of therapy. In this episode, Naja brings beautiful wisdom on topics like supporting kids in grief, why social media is addictive, how isolation translates as…
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Bonus Episode 7: Full Circle Validation Tranquility
Where and how do you find validation? Could it actually be healthy or even possible to seek it outside of yourself? What does living in love look like? Do you experience in-the-moment tranqility? Can you let chaos just be chaos without responding? We know. It’s all easier said than done.…
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Bonus Episode 6: Gray Area
Updates, housekeeping, technology struggles, naps, juggling life, cookies from the universe, etc. You know. Just checking in with our friends. (That’s you.)
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Moving Through Grief With Mighty Leona
Behold, a conversation full of laughter and love with our friend Kim De Los Reyes, aka Kim of the Kings. Kim walks us through how grief made her lose The Music, and the beautiful way she found it again in nature, in movement, and in coming back home to herself. We discuss how we shake it to…
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Moving Through Grief With Jenny Gal
Put on your sexy hat, cuz this week we explore movement and pleasure with Jenny Gal, Ayurvedic Post-Partum Doula, Somatic and Sexological Bodyworker, and Erotic Blueprint Coach. Jenny works to help clients in reclaiming sacred sexuality in motherhood, and supporting women's healing and thriving…
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Moving Through Grief With Kiva Siani
D and Micki join Kiva Siani - burlesque dancer, strip tease artist and creator of the Sensual Moms Group - for more yummy fun pleasure tidbits about moving through grief. Kiva uses the principals of practice, pleasure and play to help us re-parent and re-write ourselves in our lives. Instagram:...
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Moving Through Grief With Jamie Asdorian
The first episode of our newest theme, Moving Through Grief, is a chat with Jamie Asdorian, a Tharavada Yoga Instructor helping us find our way back to self-trust and inner wisdom through slow, meditative practices. Jamie is also a practitioner of Vegetation, a unique type of meditation…
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Commentary about grief, love, life, and resilience. Lifelong friends D Anaya and Micki Hassemer explore the depths to which grief can sink into our beings while discussing how they survive, and how they live. Join us as we share our life adventures, love, beer, wine and laughter.
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Commentary about grief, love, life, and resilience. Lifelong friends D Anaya and Micki Hassemer explore the depths to which grief can sink into our beings while discussing how they survive, and how they live. Join us as we share our life adventures, love, beer, wine and laughter.
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