“What’s In Your Bag” is our core, in-person group experience designed for adults, especially men and veterans, seeking emotional support. It offers a warm, structured space where you can finally look at what you have been carrying emotionally and mentally, instead of just pushing through another day. In each small group, trained facilitators guide gentle conversations that help you identify how old patterns, survival strategies, and unspoken grief have been weighing you down. You do not have to share your whole story or your deepest secrets for this to be useful. You share only what feels right, at a pace that honors your nervous system and your reality.

The program emphasizes practical steps you can take now. You leave each session with simple, realistic practices to communicate more clearly, set kinder boundaries, and find more calm in your days. The goal is not to fix you, because you are not broken. The aim is to provide tools, language, and community so that what you are holding no longer feels overwhelming. “What’s In Your Bag” welcomes men 18+ and veterans with dignity and care. We recognize trauma without defining you by it, and all inquiries and participation are kept confidential so you can show up authentically.

For those seeking more than a non-clinical group experience, we offer one-on-one sessions with a licensed clinician connected to the program. This option provides access to professional, trauma-aware care that can explore your unique history, patterns, and needs more deeply, while maintaining the same respect and clarity you experience in group.

“What’s In Your Purse?” exists to create a supportive space where mothers of children with disabilities can share their hidden burdens. This program is built specifically for mothers, grandmothers, and aunties who are raising children with disabilities and are exhausted by pretending they are okay when they are not. It draws on the same heart and structure as “What’s In Your Bag,” but centers disability parenting in a direct, honest way. Here, the purse becomes a symbol of everything you carry that rarely gets named: appointment cards, forms, sensory tools, emergency snacks, late-night fears about your child’s future, and the quiet guilt that shows up when you are overwhelmed by a life you did not plan for.

In this space, you do not have to sanitize your experience to make other people comfortable. We acknowledge caregiver burnout, anxiety, depression, trauma responses, and complicated grief as predictable outcomes of an unbearable load, not as personal failures. Together with other mothers who already understand the language of IEP meetings, service cutbacks, regressions, and sensory overload, you explore what you are holding day to day and where you have been pushed past your capacity. You also look at how your own disabilities or mental health needs intersect with parenting, and what boundaries, supports, or resources might make this sustainable instead of soul-crushing. This is a space to find understanding and practical help tailored to your experience.

“What’s In Your Purse?” is a trauma-informed, judgment-free program that welcomes your love and frustrations equally. It helps rebuild the community or “village” many parents miss, showing you that you are not alone. You are encouraged to share your challenges and find a community that sees both your child and you with understanding.

Ya Enough! serves communities across Rhode Island and Massachusetts, including the South Shore, Cape Cod, Greater Boston, the North Shore, Central Massachusetts, and surrounding areas. Both “What’s In Your Bag” and “What’s In Your Purse?” are offered in small, in-person groups so you can feel the difference that comes from being in a room with people who genuinely understand. To get involved or support our work, fill out our confidential interest form on the site and let us know which program resonates with you. A member of our team will follow up to discuss next steps, current groups, and options for individual clinical support, if that is something you need.

As a 501(c)(3) organization, we work hard to keep services accessible and low-barrier, and we are transparent about the fact that donations directly support materials, spaces, and fair wages for the people doing this work. Your donations help us expand programs like "What's In Your Bag" and "What's In Your Purse?" and ensure our team can continue providing support. But whether you come to us as a participant, a supporter, or both, our message remains the same: you are not meant to carry all of this on your own. You are allowed to ask for help. And even on the days when you can’t feel it yet, you are enough.