Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue

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Yvette Dávila, Dionne C. Monsanto

10 episodes

2 weeks ago

In Part 2 of Grief and Addiction, the conversation deepens—and so does the truth. Yvette shares the moment her grief was fundamentally reshaped: learning that addiction played a direct role in her son Dasan’s death. With compassion and courage, she reflects on the question that changed everything—What would life have looked like if addiction had continued?—and how that reckoning opened a path toward forgiveness, faith, and self-compassion. Joined again by licensed professional counselor and...

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Education,

Religion & Spirituality,

Self-Improvement,

Health & Fitness

Episodes (10/10)

Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue

Grief and Addiction (Part 2)

2 weeks ago

43 minutes

Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue

Grief and Addiction (Part 1)

In Part 1 of 2 about Grief and Addiction, we open a tender, necessary conversation about the kind of grief that begins long before a goodbye. Dionne and Yvette name the quiet losses that live inside addiction—the loss of safety, trust, time, potential, and the versions of people we hoped might still emerge. Joined by licensed professional counselor and addiction specialist Jill Mackey, the three explore how grief and addiction are deeply intertwined, not just for the person using substances,...

2 weeks ago

40 minutes

Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue

Love, Faith & Spirituality in Grief

In this episode, Yvette and Dionne dive into how love, faith, and spirituality shape our grief—and how they can help us find steadiness when life shakes us to the core. They explore the role of breathwork in calming the nervous system, the rituals that ground us, and the ways signs, dreams, scripture, and nature can offer comfort. Yvette shares the spiritual messages that carried her after losing her son, while Dionne reflects on faith, anger, and the meaning she’s found after her daughter S...

3 weeks ago

48 minutes

Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue

Changing the Grief Narrative with Bun B

Hip-hop legend Bun B joins Two Mothers, One Aché for a raw and deeply human conversation about brotherhood, loss, and healing. He opens up about the morning he learned of Pimp C’s passing, the identity-shifting grief that followed, and why he chose to grieve publicly in a culture that often equates vulnerability with weakness. Together, Bun, Yvette, and Dionne explore how grief reshapes us, what community can repair, and the quiet ways our loved ones still reach for us. From faith to hip hop...

1 month ago

1 hour 18 minutes

Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue

Grief and the Body

In this episode of Two Mothers, One Aché, Dionne and Yvette welcome their very first guest—author, athlete, mother, and fierce grief-advocate, Myra Sack. Together, they explore how grief lives in the body—how it tightens the throat, aches in the heart, disrupts our systems, and demands to be felt. Myra shares the story behind her memoir 57 Fridays and the creation of eMotion, the nonprofit she founded to help grievers heal through movement, ritual, and community. The conversation flows throug...

1 month ago

55 minutes

Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue

Rituals, Remembrance and Anniversaries

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....

1 month ago

47 minutes

Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue

Motherhood and Loss

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...

1 month ago

48 minutes

Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue

Defining Grief

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...

1 month ago

53 minutes

Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue

Meet the Hosts: Kitchen-Table Beginnings

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...

2 months ago

47 minutes

Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue

Introducing Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue

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...

2 months ago

1 minute