Mourning Your Childhood Imaginary Friend: The Grief We Never Knew | The Healing Reset

The Healing Reset: Psychology, self-worth & becoming yourself · Oct 23, 2026 · 8m

This episode of The Healing Reset explores the profound and often unacknowledged grief associated with losing a childhood imaginary friend. Host Margaret Hood invites listeners to recognize that mourning these invisible companions is not only normal but necessary for emotional healing and self-worth. If you have ever felt a hollow ache or a sense of abandonment despite having supportive parents, this conversation validates those feelings as real losses of a part of your own psyche that once held you together.

We delve into the psychological reasons why imaginary friends disappear, framing…