Grieving the Loss Before the Loss: Loving Someone with Dementia
Join in community with women of similar experience of loss, stage of life, and desire to learn how to hold love in the here-now in the midst of the struggles and stresses of loving someone with dementia.
This course is intentionally self-compassionate in its tone and pace with supportive information and community. We honor that as much as you need information, you already have a deluge of information as someone who provides emotional, mental, physical, organizational, and/or financial care for someone with dementia. This educational course is not therapy and it will provide you with supportive information and community in a compassionate format.
This course will help you to comprehend what’s going on within you during “anticipatory grief” (when someone we love is declining but has not died) and connect with others who understand beyond words. This is a space to turn your attention to your own experience, at least temporarily, to support your life and wellbeing as a whole. Join us to include yourself in your own compassion and your own care.
In this course, you will learn:
What is anticipatory grief, and what to do in the midst of it
What are secondary losses: non-death losses related to what was, what was expected, and what could or should be
Grief models beyond the 5 stage model, and how to consider which model works for your grief & your life in an intentional and actionable way
How to hold mortality anxiety & fear of dementia as you bear witness to someone losing their cognitive, emotional, or memory faculties
Nuanced aspects of loving, caring for, & grief related to loving someone with dementia and brain changes
Grief education groups at Voyager intentionally do not include:
Therapy of any kind
Long sharing—questions sometimes need context, but no sharing
Discussion of any specific event of trauma or death
Processing of any trauma
This intentional exclusion allows us to provide an educational group accessible everywhere, where participants can lean back to learn and sample the supportive content at the pace right for them. It also centralizes peer-to-peer connection, rather than therapeutic relationship, as the main source of support.
Over 4 weeks, you will receive:
2 hours of live Q&A with Olga Montgomery, LCSW, a grief therapist specifically trained & career experienced in neurodegenerative disease research (including Alzheimer’s, early onset Alzheimer’s, Frontotemporal Degeneration, & Lewy Body Dementia)
2 hours of education on topics and themes cultivated specifically for you, with your loss, in your stage of life, presented in thoughtfully short 15 minute segments
4 hours in community with women like you who understand the ins-and-outs of caring about and caring for a loved one with dementia
4 hours of intentional space for you to include yourself in your own care
Space to make peer connections over the course of 4 weeks at your own pace
Opportunity to participate in contact information sharing with your peers for ongoing support and organic connection
Course time: Saturdays from 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Start date: July 12th, 2025
End date: August 2nd, 2025
Sending you lots of hope for soft moments on hard days. Register your spot in the virtual room — we look forward to meeting you and connecting soon.
Join in community with women of similar experience of loss, stage of life, and desire to learn how to hold love in the here-now in the midst of the struggles and stresses of loving someone with dementia.
This course is intentionally self-compassionate in its tone and pace with supportive information and community. We honor that as much as you need information, you already have a deluge of information as someone who provides emotional, mental, physical, organizational, and/or financial care for someone with dementia. This educational course is not therapy and it will provide you with supportive information and community in a compassionate format.
This course will help you to comprehend what’s going on within you during “anticipatory grief” (when someone we love is declining but has not died) and connect with others who understand beyond words. This is a space to turn your attention to your own experience, at least temporarily, to support your life and wellbeing as a whole. Join us to include yourself in your own compassion and your own care.
In this course, you will learn:
What is anticipatory grief, and what to do in the midst of it
What are secondary losses: non-death losses related to what was, what was expected, and what could or should be
Grief models beyond the 5 stage model, and how to consider which model works for your grief & your life in an intentional and actionable way
How to hold mortality anxiety & fear of dementia as you bear witness to someone losing their cognitive, emotional, or memory faculties
Nuanced aspects of loving, caring for, & grief related to loving someone with dementia and brain changes
Grief education groups at Voyager intentionally do not include:
Therapy of any kind
Long sharing—questions sometimes need context, but no sharing
Discussion of any specific event of trauma or death
Processing of any trauma
This intentional exclusion allows us to provide an educational group accessible everywhere, where participants can lean back to learn and sample the supportive content at the pace right for them. It also centralizes peer-to-peer connection, rather than therapeutic relationship, as the main source of support.
Over 4 weeks, you will receive:
2 hours of live Q&A with Olga Montgomery, LCSW, a grief therapist specifically trained & career experienced in neurodegenerative disease research (including Alzheimer’s, early onset Alzheimer’s, Frontotemporal Degeneration, & Lewy Body Dementia)
2 hours of education on topics and themes cultivated specifically for you, with your loss, in your stage of life, presented in thoughtfully short 15 minute segments
4 hours in community with women like you who understand the ins-and-outs of caring about and caring for a loved one with dementia
4 hours of intentional space for you to include yourself in your own care
Space to make peer connections over the course of 4 weeks at your own pace
Opportunity to participate in contact information sharing with your peers for ongoing support and organic connection
Course time: Saturdays from 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Start date: July 12th, 2025
End date: August 2nd, 2025
Sending you lots of hope for soft moments on hard days. Register your spot in the virtual room — we look forward to meeting you and connecting soon.
Join in community with women of similar experience of loss, stage of life, and desire to learn how to hold love in the here-now in the midst of the struggles and stresses of loving someone with dementia.
This course is intentionally self-compassionate in its tone and pace with supportive information and community. We honor that as much as you need information, you already have a deluge of information as someone who provides emotional, mental, physical, organizational, and/or financial care for someone with dementia. This educational course is not therapy and it will provide you with supportive information and community in a compassionate format.
This course will help you to comprehend what’s going on within you during “anticipatory grief” (when someone we love is declining but has not died) and connect with others who understand beyond words. This is a space to turn your attention to your own experience, at least temporarily, to support your life and wellbeing as a whole. Join us to include yourself in your own compassion and your own care.
In this course, you will learn:
What is anticipatory grief, and what to do in the midst of it
What are secondary losses: non-death losses related to what was, what was expected, and what could or should be
Grief models beyond the 5 stage model, and how to consider which model works for your grief & your life in an intentional and actionable way
How to hold mortality anxiety & fear of dementia as you bear witness to someone losing their cognitive, emotional, or memory faculties
Nuanced aspects of loving, caring for, & grief related to loving someone with dementia and brain changes
Grief education groups at Voyager intentionally do not include:
Therapy of any kind
Long sharing—questions sometimes need context, but no sharing
Discussion of any specific event of trauma or death
Processing of any trauma
This intentional exclusion allows us to provide an educational group accessible everywhere, where participants can lean back to learn and sample the supportive content at the pace right for them. It also centralizes peer-to-peer connection, rather than therapeutic relationship, as the main source of support.
Over 4 weeks, you will receive:
2 hours of live Q&A with Olga Montgomery, LCSW, a grief therapist specifically trained & career experienced in neurodegenerative disease research (including Alzheimer’s, early onset Alzheimer’s, Frontotemporal Degeneration, & Lewy Body Dementia)
2 hours of education on topics and themes cultivated specifically for you, with your loss, in your stage of life, presented in thoughtfully short 15 minute segments
4 hours in community with women like you who understand the ins-and-outs of caring about and caring for a loved one with dementia
4 hours of intentional space for you to include yourself in your own care
Space to make peer connections over the course of 4 weeks at your own pace
Opportunity to participate in contact information sharing with your peers for ongoing support and organic connection
Course time: Saturdays from 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Start date: July 12th, 2025
End date: August 2nd, 2025
Sending you lots of hope for soft moments on hard days. Register your spot in the virtual room — we look forward to meeting you and connecting soon.