To fully grieve a parent's death, a young child needs to come to terms internally with the loss. The author describes this process in a toddler whose mother committed suicide. In therapy, the child formed a relationship with a stone statue and communicated her need to be found and protected. Drawing on the notion of "potential space," an intermediate area of experiencing between reality and fantasy, the article underscores how creating potential space in therapy can help a young child tap into a wellspring of imagination and subjectivity where personal meanings about loss can be explored in ways that are uniquely helpful to the child.