008: Walking Through Grief and Healing w/Danielle Dunn

 


Episode 008 of Get Naked LIVE features Danielle
Dunn, CEO of Chikara Communications, LLC.  In
this episode Danielle  takes us on a journey of how losing
her best friend  to Hodgkin’s lymphoma took an emotional
toll on her, how challenging walking through grief and healing
was  and how she is now honoring her friends life.


 
This episode sheds a light on the
individual journey of walking through grief and
healing

 


For years Danielle,  thought that mourning and grieving the
loss of someone she loved dearly was only appropriate for her
birthday and anniversary of her death.  She also felt that
she could only have level five grief because she wasn’t a parent
or blood sibling.  She felt that if her friend’s own mother
was being “strong” in the face of losing her only child, then she
definitely needed to get her ish together and not let the death
of someone who was “just her friend” break her.
Some of the episode’s defining moments
include:

 


How she didn’t want to make others feel uncomfortable by
allowing herself to grieve

How she felt like she didn’t have the right to grieve because
“she was just my friend”

How she was extremely uncomfortable  with the feelings
of sadness and how feeling uncomfortable put on her on the run
and led her to engaging in unhealthy activities

How she wishes she had allowed herself to properly experience
the grief

How she now celebrates her best friend daily through the Ivy
locs books series

How she uses the devastating loss to affirm other women by
talking about the value of sisterhood

How allowing yourself to feel emotional pain sets you free

How important it is to find a healing process that works
specifically for you

How she is now honoring her friends life.



 
ABOUT DANIELLE

Danielle Carin Dunn is CEO of Chikara Communications, LLC., which
provides professional writing services to small businesses. She
is publisher and author of the IvyLocs book
series. The first installment, IvyLocs, Episode 1:
Tee-Tee’s Wedding was released in April 2016.


Recognized nationally for her work, Dunn was selected for the
2017 NAACP Author Pavilion. Her writings and opinions have
been featured in the Detroit News and the National Black Women’s
Roundtable on the State of Black Women in Michigan report. She
was featured in the AAMBC Literary Awards 2017 national literacy
campaign- #TheySayWeDontRead, with a mission to highlight the
importance of literacy and writing in the African-American
community.


A dedicated community servant, Dunn is the recipient of a Spirit
of Detroit Award for “Dedicated Community Service” and a
Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for “Outstanding
Community Service.”


Dunn is a proud Detroit Public School graduate and alumnus of
Eastern Michigan University, where she majored in
African-American Studies and English, Language and
Literature. She writes to marry her love of language and
storytelling with activism.

You can find Danielle in the following online spaces:

Website: www.ivylocs.com


Facebook: Ivylocs


Instagram:  @ivylocsbooks
Danielle’s MOST Quotable Moment:

“Losing her felt like losing a piece of myself.   I had to figure out what my life would be

after losing someone who had been such an integral part of it.  I can’t even describe the level of  devastation.”


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