Forgotten Daughter™: Reclaiming Your Identity While Caring for Aging Parent

Forgotten Daughter™ is a one-day conference created to bring daughters together to learn, heal, and reconnect with their identity while navigating the realities of caregiving.

This conference blends:
✨ education
✨ storytelling
✨ wellness
✨ community
✨ and deeply needed emotional support

Whether you’re supporting a parent with dementia, cancer, mobility challenges, or simply preparing for the shifts ahead — you don’t have to do this alone.

🔹 What You Will Learn:

• How to identify when your parent needs more support
• Navigating dementia, confusion, and unpredictable behaviours
• Understanding care levels (Independent → Retirement → Assisted → LTC)
• How to reduce overwhelm & navigate healthcare systems
• Sibling roles, resentment, and emotional labour
• Planning ahead to avoid crisis
• Advocacy strategies that protect your parent — and your sanity
• Tools to maintain your identity, health, boundaries, and emotional wellbeing

🔹 Featured Speaker: Amy Friesen

Founder of ElderCare Planners
Author of Breadcrumbs (complimentary copy included!)

Two-Part Session:

1. Siblings, Stress & the Silent Load Carried by Daughters
2. How to Choose the Right Care Home: What Daughters REALLY Need to Know

🔹 Panel: Real Stories from Forgotten Daughters

Hear from women currently navigating:
• dementia caregiving
• cancer caregiving
• sibling dynamics
• long-distance caregiving
• being the “default” daughter
• grief before loss
• burnout and identity loss
• advocating for their parents

This panel will feel like coming home to people who truly get it.

🔹 Keynote: Sheri Godfrey

“Reclaiming Myself While Losing My Dad to Dementia & Supporting My Mom Through Cancer.”
A real, raw, honest conversation about:
• anticipatory grief
• guilt
• emotional labour
• shifting roles
• protecting your heart
• and finding your identity again

🔹 Women’s Wellness Reset Session:

This is your moment to exhale.

🔹 Your Ticket Includes:

✔ Full day conference
✔ Catered lunch (thank you to our venue partner!)
✔ Workbook + handouts
✔ Breadcrumbs book
✔ Resource tables
✔ Wellness session
✔ Connection with other women
✔ Panel discussion
✔ Q&A sessions
✔ A supportive community

📍 Kingston, ON
January 24th , 2026
🕘 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
🥗 Lunch Included

Caring for an aging parent while managing your own career, family, and life can leave you feeling overwhelmed, unseen, and completely depleted.

You are not alone.

We would like to thank The Royale Retirement Community for their Support and for being our main Sponsor for this event.

They are providing:

• A safe space to gather and form community in their lower level
• Coffe / Tea and Treats throughout the day
• Lunch created by their in house Chef

Sheri Godfrey – Host & Keynote Speaker
Sheri Godfrey is the founder of Senior Transitions, a compassionate, full-service company that helps seniors and their families navigate the emotional and logistical challenges of aging. A licensed REALTOR®, certified End-of-Life Doula, and experienced caregiver advocate, Sheri brings heart, humor, and hard-earned wisdom to every conversation. With a passion for creating safe spaces for adult children who feel lost in their caregiving roles, she launched the "Forgotten Daughters" conference to bring visibility, tools, and connection to this often-overlooked journey. Sheri’s mission is to help caregivers reclaim their voice, set healthy boundaries, and move forward with clarity and grace.

Talk:

Parent Pushback: Boundaries, Guilt & Permission to Say No Tools for healthy boundaries, respectful communication, and emotional well-being

Description:

Saying “no” to a parent can feel like breaking a sacred rule—especially when guilt, obligation, or old patterns are running the show. This powerful and practical talk explores how to set healthy boundaries with aging parents (and other family members), how to communicate them clearly, and how to manage the emotional landmines that come with saying “no.”

At the heart of this session is the 5-step No More Martyr™ method—a framework designed to help you stop people-pleasing, start advocating for your needs, and show up with more clarity, strength, and self-respect in emotionally charged situations.

Whether you're part of the sandwich generation, navigating eldercare, or untangling generational dynamics, you’ll walk away with:

• Tools to establish and maintain healthy, compassionate boundaries
• Language that promotes respectful communication (even in tough conversations)
• Strategies to reduce guilt and increase emotional clarity
• Permission to prioritize your own well-being—without apology
• A guided walk-through of the No More Martyr™ method to shift from resentment to resilience

This session offers both insight and empowerment for anyone ready to redefine what respectful family care really looks like—without losing themselves in the process.

Speaker:

Amy Friesen is a multi-award-winning Eldercare Visionary and Transformational Speaker who brings honesty, heart, and real-world insight to conversations about caregiving, aging, and life reinvention. As the founder of Tea & Toast and a best-selling author, Amy has helped thousands of families navigate the overwhelming world of eldercare — but her true passion lies in changing the way we think and talk about it. Whether on stage or behind the mic, Amy shares stories and strategies that empower others to face tough transitions, break generational patterns, and move forward with clarity and confidence.

Talk: Featuring Breadcrumbs Author and Founder of Eldercare Planners Amy Friesen

The Roadmap to Eldercare: Knowing When to Stay, When to Move, and How to Plan Ahead

Caring for an aging loved one can feel like navigating a maze without a map. This informative and eye-opening session breaks down the complexities of eldercare planning, clearly outlining how the public and private care systems work, identifying the gaps, and providing guidance on making informed decisions along the way. You’ll learn practical ways to help your loved ones stay safely at home for as long as possible, recognize the signs that it might be time for a move, and understand the options available when that time comes. Whether you're just starting to plan or already deep in the caregiving journey, this talk offers clarity, direction, and peace of mind.