Your loss might have happened when you were two, or 20, or somewhere in between. You may have been the only kid you knew with a dead parent. And as kids do, you survived, you adapted, you got good at appearing to be okay, you moved forward because there wasn't any other option. Now the loss is old, the family has moved forward, but those patterns you adopted in order to get through are still impacting your life in ways you’d like to change. It might be interfering with relationships and intimacy, with preparing to become a parent yourself, or with self-worth and sense of purpose. Maybe you still find yourself longing for an adult conversation with the person you never had that chance with, or wishing you knew more about what they were up to at your age.

This group is for young adults (20s and 30s) who lost a parent in childhood and are finding that the grief didn't end when everyone assumed it would. It's a space to talk about what it's like to have grown up around an absence, a difference you didn’t ask for. To explore the ways it shaped how you attach, how you cope, how you learned to carry responsibility - and to open up possibilities for something new. To share and grieve the person you lost, and all the complex feelings associated, with people who get it.

Join others familiar with the unique pain of never knowing your parent as an adult. Of having old, or few, or no direct memories of one of the most important people in your life. Maybe of living more years without them, than with them. For those who've learned to build their lives around that absence, and are ready to look, with curiosity and company, at what's still underneath- this group is for you.

Led by Dr. Sam Golden, PsyD.

-Dead Dad Club Member since 1998‍ ‍