The grief that shapes
everything.
Something brought you to this work.
Most people who help others navigate grief arrived here through their own experience of loss. You know what it is to sit with someone carrying something heavy and old and unnamed. And if early parent loss has been part of that story, you already know this grief doesn't follow the rules.
It doesn't follow the timelines. It doesn't respond to the usual frameworks. It shows up decades after the loss in ways that are hard to name, hard to trace, and hard to explain even to the person carrying it.
Most training programs don't cover this. Most grief models weren't built for it.
This conversation is about changing that.
You may
recognize
this.
- Someone you support whose grief keeps surfacing in ways that don't connect to anything recent β a milestone, a relationship, a season β and neither of you has a framework for it.
- A loss that happened so long ago it seems like it should be resolved by now, but isn't.
- The feeling that your training gave you tools for acute grief, but not for this.
- The sense that something formative happened early in someone's life and has been quietly shaping everything since. You can feel it. You've probably seen it. You just haven't had a clear path to understanding it.
Until now.
In this free online event, Hope Edelman sits down with David Kessler to introduce the Six Truths of Early Parent Loss β a framework for understanding why this grief is different, why it doesn't follow the timelines people expect, and why it keeps showing up across every stage of life.
This event is for anyone who helps others navigate grief β therapists, coaches, chaplains, educators, peer supporters, hospice workers. And it's for anyone who has lived this themselves and wants to understand it more fully.
Wednesday, June 3.
You're invited to be there.
Save Your Spot
A replay will be sent to everyone who registers.
Hope Edelman
Hope lost her mother at seventeen.
Unable to find a book that could explain what she was feeling, she eventually wrote one. Motherless Daughters has sold more than a million copies worldwide.
She is a trained life coach, narrative therapist, and creator of grief support circle curriculum. Early parent loss has been her life's work for more than thirty years.
David Kessler
The world's foremost expert on grief.
David is the author of Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, co-created with Elisabeth KΓΌbler-Ross, and the founder of grief.com.
He has spent decades helping people find their way through loss β and bringing the most important voices in grief to his community.
