Seasonal Healing Series for Unexpected Childlessness

How The Series Is Structured:

Each 3-month cycle offers a steady, supportive rhythm:

Weekly support:

• 2–3 reflective journaling prompts

• 1–2 gentle self-reflection or nervous system support practices

These are invitations, not expectations.

Monthly live group session (60 minutes):

A facilitated therapeutic group space for reflection, grounding, and optional sharing.

Each session includes:

• a central theme

• emotional validation and normalization

• gentle nervous system support practices

• optional sharing (always low pressure, never required)

Cycle 1: Grounding & Grief - Currently Underway

Cycle 1 is currently underway and focuses on settling into what is present, grief, disorientation, and emotional intensity, without needing to move through it or make sense of it too quickly.

What we are exploring:

• emotional validation and normalization of grief responses

• gentle nervous system regulation and grounding tools

• space to simply be with what is present

• optional witnessing and sharing, with no pressure to disclose

Cycle 2: Identity & Meaning - Now Open

January – March 2027

Exploring who you are, what has changed, and what may be meaningful now

After experiencing infertility, pregnancy loss, treatment endings, or unexpected childlessness, it can be difficult to know how to understand yourself and your life when the future you imagined is no longer unfolding in the same way.

Cycle 2 offers space to gently explore the shifts that can happen in identity, relationships, values, hopes, and sense of purpose.

What we will explore:

• how unexpected childlessness can affect identity and sense of self

• noticing identities, roles, and expectations that may have shifted

• making space for grief around the life you imagined

• exploring what remains important to you now

• reconnecting with values, interests, and parts of yourself that may have felt lost or put on hold

• beginning to explore meaning without needing to have all the answers

• holding both what has been lost and what may still be possible

You do not need to have completed Cycle 1 to join Cycle 2. Each cycle stands on its own, and you are welcome to join at the point that feels right for you.

A Seasonal Series With Evolving Themes:

Seasonal Healing Series for Unexpected Childlessness is structured as a seasonal offering that may continue throughout the year for those who wish to remain in the space.

Each cycle holds a different focus, while honouring that healing is not linear and does not unfold in predictable stages.

Planned Seasonal Cycles:

Cycle 1 (Sept–Nov): Grounding & Grief
Stabilization, naming loss, and creating space for grief.

Cycle 2 (Jan–Mar): Identity & Meaning
Exploring identity shifts and meaning-making after loss.

Cycle 3 (Apr–Jun): Reconnection & Aliveness (planned)
Gentle reconnection, presence, and expanding capacity for aliveness alongside grief.

These future cycles are offered as part of a broader seasonal rhythm, not a requirement to continue.

You are welcome to join for one cycle, or stay within the space over time.

This Work Is Grounded In:

• trauma-informed group facilitation

• grief and meaning-making

• nervous system awareness and regulation

• relational support with others who understand this lived experience

• space for both grief and aliveness to coexist

You do not have to hold this alone.

What This Space Is Here To Hold:

This is a place for:

• grief that has not had enough room

• identity shifts that feel disorienting

• reconnection to self, body, and life

• the slow, honest process of finding what comes next

This is not about rushing healing. It is about creating steadiness inside what feels uncertain.

You will be met where you are, not where you think you should be.

Who This Is For:

This space is for women and assigned female at birth (AFAB) who identify with experiencing unexpected childlessness, including through infertility, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment journeys, or life paths that have unfolded differently than expected.

This may include those who are:

• navigating the emotional impact of infertility or treatment endings

• living after pregnancy loss or reproductive grief

• adjusting to life after not becoming a parent in the way they once hoped

• holding the ongoing identity shifts that can come with this experience

You do not need to be “further along” to be here.

🌿Cycle 2 is now open for registration. If you would like to learn more or book a discovery call, please email Kirsten at info@kirstensherlock.com.