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Looking for materials and information to help make sense of your experience, feel less alone, or support others when they are grieving? Explore the entries below to learn about grief, listen to stories from others, and make supportive connections.

Have you discovered helpful information on your journey? Please consider sending it to us so we can share it with others.

What to Say to a Griever

What to Say to a Griever

There are hundreds, if not thousands of articles, blogs and lists of what to say and what not to say to someone who is grieving. In nearly every grief group we facilitate the topic of, “I can’t believe he/she said that…” comes up.
Why is it that when we are supporting someone who is grieving, we cannot figure out what to say and when we are grieving we are often offended by what people say, despite the hundreds of quotes, phrases and advice columns?

Tending to Grief with Yoga

Tending to Grief with Yoga

When grief lands in our lives, our bodies feel it all. Everything we have lost, our bodies have lost. Our nervous system often regulates our emotions into waves – reaching our capacity of how much we can feel and helping us, over time, to process and integrate the new reality of our lives without.

Heart To Heart: From One Griever to Another: Anger

Heart To Heart: From One Griever to Another: Anger

Do you feel mad about your grief? I’ve felt so mad. Mad that I’m in this space. That I’m navigating a “new normal” that I didn’t ask for. Angry that my person is gone, my world crumbled. I don’t always feel safe, I feel exposed and raw.
I hate the way they died, I hate how I found out, I hate the lack of goodbye in my story.

I feel lonely. Like no one can actually understand the enormity of my grief.

On Seasons of Grief and Hope

On Seasons of Grief and Hope

How we process change, transition, cope and grief is unique to each person. No two people respond to loss in the same way and there is not a time table for healing. Relationships in the workplace are unique, to some the relationship to the person who has died was a working relationship, to others a deep friendship.

Self-Compassion and Grief

Self-Compassion and Grief

How we process change, transition, cope and grief is unique to each person. No two people respond to loss in the same way and there is not a time table for healing. Relationships in the workplace are unique, to some the relationship to the person who has died was a working relationship, to others a deep friendship.

Heart To Heart: From One Griever to Another: Starting a New Year with Grief

Heart To Heart: From One Griever to Another: Starting a New Year with Grief

My name is John and I wanted to pass along some thoughts that I have had regarding starting a new year with grief. I have read a number of books on grief and several grief programs. All of these have been helpful in dealing with the grief I am experiencing. And I plan on becoming part of more face-to-face groups dealing with the emotions that surround the loss of a loved one. And, as you know, these emotions are many and varied, from anger to depression to sadness to disbelief to grief, etc.,

Types of Groups

Types of Groups

How we process change, transition, cope and grief is unique to each person. No two people respond to loss in the same way and there is not a time table for healing. Relationships in the workplace are unique, to some the relationship to the person who has died was a working relationship, to others a deep friendship.

Additional Info & Community Resources

Substance Loss

Substance Loss

Connect and learn about organizations and groups who understand the impacts of losing a loved one to suicide and prevention efforts within your community.

Grieving Children

Grieving Children

Supporting children when they are grieving can feel overwhelming. Explore resources so you can connect with children through their grieving process.

Suicide Loss

Suicide Loss

Connect and learn about organizations and groups who understand the impacts of losing a loved one to suicide and prevention efforts within your community.

Loss of a Child

Loss of a Child

A list of websites, books and organizations who offer support, resources and connection for anyone who has experienced the loss of a child.