I lost my dad at fourteen. My mom died in my twenties.

Robert DelFave seated outdoors on a park bench.

After my dad died, I learned how to keep functioning. When my mom died years later, I experienced another life-changing loss without having fully understood the first one.

From the outside, I continued moving forward. I was carrying grief I did not know how to explain.

It appeared in relationships, responsibilities, milestones, and questions about who I was becoming.

Who is Robert?

  • Husband and father of two daughters

  • David Kessler Certified Grief Educator

  • Author of The Other Side of This

  • Host of Unparented

  • Based in North Carolina

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The book and the podcast.

I wrote The Other Side of This for grieving teenagers. I host Unparented for adults who lost a parent before they were twenty-five.

The first conversation is 45 minutes, and it is free.