If you’re reading this, you already know the unbearable pain of being cut off from your child. Most people can’t even imagine what you’re going through:

Your child — the one you raised, nurtured, and love beyond words — is being turned against you, slipping further away each day, or is already gone.

It may have happened in an instant, or it might be a slow, subtle distancing that you can barely put into words, happening through subtle, often covert manipulation, silent distancing, and or court and professional failures.  You’ve tried to communicate, you’ve tried to get help, only to be met with judgement – as if everyone thinks it must be something you are doing, no one gets it and it is impossible to try and describe.

You watch the bond erode, feeling alone, helpless, and scared as the days pass.

You feel as if you’re living a unique kind of grief and heartbreak that suffocates you – and the outside world doesn’t see or understand it.

No matter how you got here, the ache is real and consuming. The grief, anger, and confusion can take over your life. And while you can’t control what your ex-partner or even your child does, there is one thing you can control: how you heal and rise above this trauma. You still have the power to take back your peace and strength. Because no matter what anyone says, you are still your child’s parent, and nothing can change that.