HAPPY NEW YEAR! We want to thank all of our loyal podcast listeners and friends for being a part of this journey with us! While our podcasting team is enjoying a little break for the holiday season, we wanted to take this opportunity to re-stream one of our most popular episodes. In case you missed it: Alix's husband, Dr. David Long, officially joined the podcast as a co-host back in November and the response from our listeners has been incredible! So this week we are re-sharing this episode, full of insights and stories of grief, waking up, feeling safe, navigating gender roles, blended families, all the things. We hope you love it, and we will be back next week and every week in January with ALL NEW EPISODES, featuring incredible guests, new faces, our new musical intro, and so much more, we can't wait to bring you those episodes.
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Episode 022: Welcome Co-Host David Long
David and Alix met as young widowed single parents in New Orleans after we lost our spouses. They recently got married and moved to Texas with our 5 blended children, three dogs, and one cat. David is the perfect first male guest for us to have on the podcast talking about grief, waking up, and what his healing journey has entailed.
David kicks off the episode by sharing his journey through grief after losing his first wife to a brain aneurysm. And throughout this episode we’ll talk about the different journeys of awakening after experiencing trauma. David in particular shares how he initially resisted therapy but eventually sought help when he realized he couldn't handle it alone. Our conversation delves into societal expectations of masculinity and the importance of open communication in relationships.
Alix, David, and Jami all share their experiences with societal expectations placed on relationships and how gender roles can hinder communication. And David wraps up the episode by reflecting on the importance for some men, including himself, of being asked what they want, and his realizing that he had never really asked himself that question before. We’ll unpack that and so many other insights into masculinity, grief, and waking up.
Plus, We had so much to cover with David that we are making this a two-part episode. So please join us next week for the second half of our conversation, we’ll be diving more into David and Alix’s different grief journeys, and how they affected their families in different ways. David will also share some of the big takeaways he got in the early days of his therapy journey, and how therapy helped him understand things differently and make positive changes, especially in his family dynamic.
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