Grief and the Body
In this week on Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue, Dionne and Yvette open the circle to welcome their very first guest—author, athlete, mother, and fierce grief-advocate, Myra Sack.
Myra joins the conversation with the full weight of her experience as a bereaved mother to her daughter Javi, whose short but mighty life reshaped her purpose. Together, the three explore the physicality of grief—how loss can sit in the throat, live in the lungs, ache in the heart, and carve itself into the body in ways we never expect. From shingles and pneumonia to heart pain and liver distress, they name what so many grievers endure in silence: that grief isn’t only emotional—it is profoundly embodied.
Myra shares the story behind her award-winning memoir 57 Fridays and the creation of eMotion, the nonprofit she founded to help others move through grief with ritual, rhythm, and community. She walks Dionne and Yvette through how movement becomes medicine, what intention really means (spoiler: it literally means to stretch), and why micro-rituals—a smoothie, a walk, a breath—can become lifelines when the world feels uninhabitable.
Together, the three mothers talk about:
How grief shows up in the body—and what our bodies are trying to tell us
The cultural illiteracy around grief and why “I’m feeling a way” is not enough
Emotional musculature, and how to strengthen it with compassion and self-trust
The grounding power of breathwork and quiet miles
The life force of community, nature, ritual, and calling our loved ones’ names
This episode is tender, stretching, cleansing, and deeply human. It is a love letter to the wisdom of the body and to every griever learning to live in it again.
Take a breath with us. Take a step with us. Take your time.
Aché.
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