Permission Granted:
To Come As You Are
A closed virtual circle for women who love someone living with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia-related illness
Almost everyone asks how your loved one is doing.
But almost nobody asks what loving someone through it is doing to YOU.
The exhaustion of being needed again before you have recovered from the last thing.
The visit you dread, then feel guilty for dreading.
The thoughts that follow you home.
The anger you do not feel allowed to express.
The impossible combination of missing someone, loving someone, and desperately wanting relief from everything their illness has changed.
You may not identify as a caregiver.
You may be a daughter, wife, sister, daughter-in-law, friend, or someone whose relationship does not fit neatly into a label.
What matters is that you love someone living with a dementia-related illness and have been looking for somewhere you can speak honestly about what this experience is doing to you.
This is that place.
Created and facilitated by Katie Berry, LCPC, whose Mom is living with Alzheimer’s disease, this circle brings together skilled facilitation and genuine lived understanding.
This offering is sold out.
Join the wait list for future Circle offerings.
Free support groups and dementia resources can be deeply valuable.
This circle offers something intentionally different: a small, consistent room where you can become known rather than simply introduced.
About Katie
Katie Berry is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and the founder of True Colors Healing Collective.
Her professional work has long centered on women carrying grief, trauma, anxiety, emotional responsibility, and the invisible pressure to keep functioning.
Her connection to this circle is also personal.
Katie’s mother is living with Alzheimer’s disease.
She brings both skilled facilitation and lived understanding to a room created for women who are rarely asked what this experience is doing to them.
Read Katie’s personal essay, The Part of My Brain Alzheimer’s Took.
This Circle May Be for You If...
✦ You are tired of being asked for updates about your loved one while almost no one asks how you are doing.
✦ You censor your real feelings because you are afraid they will sound selfish, unkind, or insufficiently loving.
✦ You feel alone even when other people know what your family is going through.
✦ You want connection with women who understand that love, grief, anger, relief, tenderness, resentment, and exhaustion can exist at the same time.
✦ You are not looking for another class about dementia.
✦ You are looking for somewhere you can finally exhale and tell the truth.
What This Is, and What It Is Not
This is a live, facilitated support circle centered on honest conversation, mutual recognition, and connection.
Participants will be invited to speak from their own experiences rather than give unsolicited advice or try to solve one another’s situations.
No one will be required to speak.
No sessions will be recorded.
Participants will be asked to respect the privacy of everyone in the circle and not share another woman’s identity or personal experiences outside the group.
Because this is a group setting, Katie cannot guarantee that every participant will maintain confidentiality.
Participants are expected to join from a private location, use headphones when needed, and refrain from recording, photographing, or taking screenshots of the gathering.
The same small group will remain together for the full series, with no drop-ins or new participants added after the circle begins.
This is not group therapy, dementia education, medical guidance, or crisis support.
Participation does not establish an individual therapy relationship with Katie, and the circle is not intended to diagnose or treat a mental-health condition.
Interested but unable to join us this fall?
Permission Granted: To Come As You Are will be offered again. Join the waitlist to be among the first to hear when the next Circle opens. There is no commitment, just a simple way to let me know you might be interested in a future offering.