In this episode, Dionne and Yvette explore the rituals that help us carry our loved ones forward—especially on the hardest days. Sparked by a moving clip from Cardi B about grief, they dive into how culture, creativity, food, altars, anniversaries, and even breathwork become ways to honor memory and move through pain. From candle lighting and birthday traditions to sip-and-paints, playlists, and planting living memorials, they share practices that have sustained them through their own losses....
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In this episode, Dionne and Yvette explore the rituals that help us carry our loved ones forward—especially on the hardest days. Sparked by a moving clip from Cardi B about grief, they dive into how culture, creativity, food, altars, anniversaries, and even breathwork become ways to honor memory and move through pain. From candle lighting and birthday traditions to sip-and-paints, playlists, and planting living memorials, they share practices that have sustained them through their own losses....
In this episode, Dionne and Yvette explore the rituals that help us carry our loved ones forward—especially on the hardest days. Sparked by a moving clip from Cardi B about grief, they dive into how culture, creativity, food, altars, anniversaries, and even breathwork become ways to honor memory and move through pain. From candle lighting and birthday traditions to sip-and-paints, playlists, and planting living memorials, they share practices that have sustained them through their own losses....
In this powerful and intimate episode, co-hosts Yvette Love Dávila and Dionne C. Monsanto open their hearts to explore the tender intersection of motherhood and grief. Through laughter, breathwork, and raw storytelling, they hold space for the beauty, guilt, and resilience that come with being mothers after loss. Yvette shares the story of saying goodbye to her son, Dasan, and the difficult conversation of helping her daughter navigate life after his passing. Dionne recalls the moment she ha...
In this deeply resonant episode, co-hosts Dionne C. Monsanto and Yvette Love Dávila return to ask a deceptively simple but transformative question: What do we really mean when we say grief? Together, they broaden the definition of grief beyond death—naming the hidden losses that shape who we are and the cultural silences that keep us from healing. Through raw, honest storytelling—from Uncle Al’s childhood heartbreak over a lost stroller to Yvette’s painful reckoning with her father’s disappe...
In the debut of Two Mothers, One Ache: A Grief Dialogue, Yvette Dávila and Dionne C. Monsanto invite you to the kitchen table—bring tea, water, cafecito—while they open the door to who they are, how they met, and the ache that birthed this show. Between laughter about their Hunter College days and “hair did, nails did” glow-ups, they ground the conversation in breathwork, faith, and the Yoruba concept of Aché—life force—explaining why “ache” (the hurt) and Aché (the power to keep going) shar...
Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue brings listeners into raw, transformative conversations about love and loss with Dionne C. Monsanto and Yvette Dávila —two mothers bound by grief after the deaths of their children, Siwe at 15 and Dasan at 26. Rooted in faith, culture, and lived experience, the podcast explores grief in its many forms—child loss, identity shifts, estrangement, rage, and renewal—through storytelling, guest voices, and ritual-inspired reflections. Rather than offering nea...
In this episode, Dionne and Yvette explore the rituals that help us carry our loved ones forward—especially on the hardest days. Sparked by a moving clip from Cardi B about grief, they dive into how culture, creativity, food, altars, anniversaries, and even breathwork become ways to honor memory and move through pain. From candle lighting and birthday traditions to sip-and-paints, playlists, and planting living memorials, they share practices that have sustained them through their own losses....
