Every resource is about your child — but who’s asking how you are? This free worksheet is for the parent carrying it all.

When your child receives a mental health diagnosis, almost every resource focuses on the child — what to do, how to help, how to advocate. All of it necessary. But almost nothing exists for the grief and identity experience of the parent — the one who loves this child fiercely, has let go of certain expectations, and carries fear, guilt, and exhaustion alongside that love.

This free worksheet is for you — the parent. Not to take attention from your child, but because you can’t sustain the care they need with no place to put what you’re carrying. It helps you name the grief that comes with this kind of parenting, understand the identity shifts a diagnosis brings, and find a way to hold the love and the hard parts at once.

• Naming the grief no one talks about — without guilt
• Understanding how a diagnosis has shifted your identity as a parent
• Recognizing one thing you’re genuinely doing well
• Building support so you can sustain yourself for the long road

That love isn’t diminished by the grief alongside it — both can be true, and you deserve support in carrying both.

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