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Grief Recovery for Parents of Estranged Adult Children
When Someone You Love Is Still Living, but No Longer in Your Life
Estrangement from an adult child can bring a kind of grief that is difficult to explain. The relationship has changed or ended, but the person you love is still living—and questions, memories, hopes, and losses may remain.
This small Grief Recovery group is for parents who want a private, supportive place to work with the grief associated with estrangement from an adult child.
Group Information
Dates: Tuesdays, September 15-October 27
Time: 6:00-7:30 PM EST
Location: Online
Length: 7 Sessions + 1 private 60-minute "listening heart" consultation
Group size: 8
Cost: $425/person
What the Group Offers
Using the Grief Recovery Method, we will work through a structured educational process for identifying and addressing unresolved grief.
The group provides an opportunity to:
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Better understand grief and how it can affect your life
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Identify losses and experiences that may still feel unfinished
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Examine some of the ways we learn to respond to loss
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Work through the Grief Recovery Method in a small, supportive group
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Take meaningful actions toward greater emotional completion
The purpose is not to determine who was right or wrong, diagnose family members, or tell you what should happen with the relationship. You do not need to stop loving your child, abandon hope for the future, or decide what the relationship should become in order to address your own grief.
What to Expect
This is a small, structured group rather than an open-ended support group. We will move through the Grief Recovery Method together, with reading and exercises between meetings.
You decide what you share. Personal stories are treated with care and confidentiality, and you will not be asked to defend or explain the circumstances of your estrangement.
The Grief Recovery Method is an educational program for working with grief and loss. It is not psychotherapy or a substitute for mental health treatment.
Not Ready for a Group Yet?
You don't have to be ready to join a group to begin understanding what you're experiencing.
This 12-part series explores some of the less visible losses that can accompany estrangement from an adult child.