The Sunny Side Society is a welcoming community built around connection, friendship, and living life fully. Whether you're navigating disability, mental health challenges, or simply looking for people who get it, you'll find support, encouragement, and genuine connection here.

Inside the community, you'll get:

• 24/7 access to a private, supportive community

• Monthly scheduled social activities & challenges to keep things fun and engaging (trivia, crafts, programming, speakers, and more!)

• Conversation prompts that go beyond surface-level small talk

• Spaces to ask for support and hear from people with shared experiences

• Opportunities to celebrate wins big, small, and everything in between

• Ongoing connection outside of scheduled groups and events

Shane and Hannah Burcaw, along with Michael and Amanda Steijlen, will be active members of the community, connecting and participating alongside everyone else.

You'll receive an email on the next business day with your invitation to join.

This is an 8 week support group.

Dating with a disability comes with conversations and situations that your non-disabled friends might not always get.

Dating With a Disability is a group specifically for single people with disabilities who are dating, thinking about dating, or want to feel more confident putting themselves out there.

This is not a couples or relationship group. It's a space to talk honestly about what it's like to navigate dating while living with a disability, with other people who actually understand the context.

Each session combines real group conversation, practical tools, guided discussions, and opportunities to learn from one another.

We'll Talk About Things Like:

• Dating apps and creating a profile that actually feels like you

• When, how, and whether to disclose your disability

• Confidence and putting yourself out there

• Fear of rejection

• Figuring out whether someone is genuinely interested or just curious about your disability

• Ableism, awkward comments, and dating red flags

• Accessibility and planning dates

• Asking for accommodations or help without feeling embarrassed

• Boundaries and communicating what you need

• Navigating independence, caregiving, and dating

• Body image, attraction, intimacy, and vulnerability

• Handling bad dates without letting them become evidence that dating "isn't for you"

• Figuring out what you actually want in a partner

This Group May Be a Good Fit If You:

• Are single and have a disability

• Are actively dating or considering getting back into dating

• Want to feel more confident putting yourself out there

• Feel unsure about disability disclosure

• Have anxiety around rejection or being judged

• Have had frustrating or ableist dating experiences

• Want help figuring out boundaries and communication

• Have questions about accessibility, caregiving, intimacy, or asking for help while dating

• Feel like your friends don't always understand the disability-specific parts of dating

• Want a supportive space where you can talk about dating without having to explain disability first

This is a group ONLY for people who have previously been a part of a topic based support group or 1:1 session at SSU previously. This is an ongoing group for support.

If you have not been a part of a 1:1 or focus group your membership to this group will be cancelled.

Our 8-week Anxiety Support Group is a supportive, conversation-based space where you'll connect with people who understand what anxiety actually feels like while learning practical tools you can use in everyday life.

Each session combines guided group conversation, psychoeducation, relatable discussions, and practical coping tools you can continue using outside of group.

Over 8 weeks, we'll explore topics like:

• Understanding your personal anxiety patterns

• Overthinking, rumination, and the search for certainty

• Physical anxiety symptoms and learning to trust your body

• Relationship anxiety, reassurance seeking, and assuming people are upset

• Boundaries, people pleasing, and the guilt that can come with saying no

• Navigating change and difficult life transitions

• Recognizing ways anxiety may be making your life smaller

• Challenging the invisible "rules" and expectations you put on yourself

• Receiving care, asking for help, and the fear of being a burden

• Building a personalized toolkit for managing anxiety moving forward

You'll Leave With Practical Tools

Throughout the group, we'll build an anxiety toolkit together with strategies for managing overwhelming physical anxiety, interrupting rumination, checking anxious assumptions, communicating needs, setting boundaries, responding to guilt, navigating change, and taking small steps toward the life you want.

But the tools are only one part of the group.

One of the most powerful parts is realizing how much you have in common with the people sitting beside you.

You'll have space to talk about what anxiety actually looks like in your life, hear how other people experience it, share what's working (and what's not), and practice responding to yourself and others with more understanding.

You can participate at your own comfort level, and you're always allowed to pass or use text to participate. There's no expectation that you have the "right" answer or share more than you're ready to.

This Group May Be a Good Fit If You:

• Spend a lot of time overthinking or replaying situations

• Experience physical symptoms when you're anxious

• Frequently worry that other people are upset with you

• Seek reassurance even when you know it only helps temporarily

• Have difficulty asking for help or worry about being a burden

• Struggle with people pleasing, guilt, or setting boundaries

• Feel overwhelmed by change or uncertainty

• Notice anxiety stopping you from doing things you want to do

• Want practical strategies, not just someone telling you to "stop worrying"

• Want to connect with people who genuinely understand