The World Feels Different When the Person Who Made You Is Gone.

8 weeks, together, plus a private session — for the loss of a mother or father.

A Grief Circle for Adult Children

The World Feels Different When the Person Who Made You Is Gone.

8 weeks, together, plus a private session — for the loss of a mother or father.

Even when it was expected, even when there was time to prepare — losing a parent rearranges something at the very center of you. You are grieving your history, your safety net, maybe your biggest cheerleader or your most complicated relationship. This circle holds all of it.

You Might Belong Here If…

People keep saying “at least they lived a long life” — and it doesn’t make the loss hurt any less.

You’re grieving a complicated relationship, not just a simple one, and it’s confusing you.

You’ve become “the older generation” overnight, and it feels disorienting.

You’re handling the practical aftermath while barely having space to feel the loss itself.

“Grief doesn’t care how “expected” a loss was. I’ll never rush you past what this actually costs — or tell you how you should feel about a relationship only you truly knew.”

How the Circle Works

Weeks 1–2

Being Witnessed

You tell your story, fully, without anyone trying to fix it or rush you past it. Just being truly heard begins the healing.

Weeks 3–5

Moving Through, Not Around

Guided grief and somatic practices — drawn from my Certified Grief Yoga® training — to help the grief move through your body, not just your mind.

Weeks 6–7

Finding the Light Again

Gently, without ever rushing you, we turn toward what it means to carry this loss and still find moments of light, connection, and life.

Week 8

Carrying It Forward, Together

We close as a circle — with what you’ll carry forward, and the truth that you never have to carry it alone again.

Bonus

Your Private Session

A private session just for you — to talk through the complexity of who your parent actually was to you, the family dynamics now shifting around you, or the practical weight you’re carrying that the group never sees.

Small group of 6–10, virtual, 90-minute sessions, weekly for 8 weeks — plus one private one-on-one session, just for you.

“The light was never extinguished in you. It lives within your loss — waiting to be found. And you don’t have to find it alone.”

— Debbie Rivera

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You Don’t Have to Walk Through This Alone.

Reach out with any question, or claim your place in the next circle — no pressure, just an open door.

Join This Circle

Small group. Private. Held with care.