Grief Resources

Books, Journals, & Workbooks:

• A to Z Healing Toolbox by Susan Hannifin-MacNab
• A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
• The Aftergrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss by Hope Edelman
• Anxiety the Missing Stage of Grief by Claire Bidwell Smith
• Bearing the Unbearable by Joanne Cacciatore
• The Beauty of What Remains by Steve Leder
• Even in Darkness: A Guided Grief Journal by Morgan Cheek
• Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler
• Finding the Words: Moving Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose by Colin Campbell
• Grief Day By Day by Jan Warner
• Grief is Love by Maria Renee Lee
• The Grieving Brain: by Mary-Frances O’Conner
• The Grief Recovery Handbook by John James & Russell Friedman
• Hardcore Grief Recovery Workbook by Steve Case
• Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations by Martha Whitmore Hickman 
• How to Carry What Can’t Be Fixed: A Jounal for Grief by Megan Devine
• I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye by Brooke Noel & Pamela Blair
• It’s OK That You’re Not OK by Megan Devine
• On Grief and Grieving by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross & David Kessler
• Option B by Cheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant
• Your Grief, Your Way by Shelby Forsythia
• Modern Loss: Candid Conversations About Grief by Rebecca Soffer
• The Modern Loss Handbook: An Interactive Guide by Rebecca Soffer
• Moving On Doesn’t Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss by Gina Moffa
• Navigating Grief: A Guided Journal by Mia Roldan
• The Other Side of Sadness by George Bonanno
• Passed and Present: Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive by Allison Gilbert
• Progressing Through Grief: Guided Exercises by Stephanie Jose
• Resilient Grieving by Lucy Hone & Karen Reivich
• Welcome to the Grief Club by Janine Kwoh
• What’s Your Grief? Lists to Help You Through Any Loss by Eleanor Haley & Litsa Williams
• When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold Kushner
• The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller

Online Resources:

• CancerCare.org: Support groups for cancer loss
• The Dinner Party: A worldwide community of 20- and 30-somethings who have experienced loss
• Domani for Grief: Support, conversation, and community
• Grief in Common: Grieve, Gather, Grow
• Grief Anonymous
• GriefYoga.com
• Grieving.com: Online forums
• HealGrief.org: Support for young adults
• GriefHealingDiscussionGroups.com
• The Memory Circle
• Modern Loss: Candid conversations about grief
• OnlineGriefSupport.com
• Option B: Coping with grief
• Refuge in Grief: Writing Your Grief with Megan Devine
• Tender Hearts: A Community of Courageous Grievers
• Pause: A dedicated digital space for People of Color to find grief support

Books:

• Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman
• Motherless Mothers: How Losing a Mother Shapes the Parent You Become by Hope Edelman
• Mother Hunger by Kelly McDaniel
• The Fatherless Daughter Project: Understanding Our Losses and Reclaiming Our Lives by Denna Babul & Karin Luise
• The Orphaned Adult by Alexander Levy
• Parentless Parents by Allison Gilbert

Online Resources:

• Motherless Daughters: Online support, healing retreats, & courses

Books & Journals:

• Comfort for a Grieving Spouse’s Heart by Gary Roe
• Healing a Spouses Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband or Wife Dies by Alan Wolfelt
• The Widow’s Journal: Questions to Guide You through Grief and Life Planning after the Loss of a Partner by Carrie Freeman
• Widow to Widow by Genevieve Davis Ginsburg 
• A Widow’s Guide to Healing by Kristen Meekof & James Windell

Online Resources:

• Soaring Spirits International: Building community for widowed men and women.

Books:

• Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child by Gary Roe
• Surviving the Loss of a Child by Elizabeth Brown
• The Unspeakable Loss by Nisha Zenoff
• When a Child Dies by Claire Aagaard

Online Resources:

• The Dougy Center: The right place when nothing feels right
• Compassionate Friends: Supporting parents after a child dies
• National Alliance for Children’s Grief: Resources for children, teens, and anyone who supports them
• MISS Foundation: Counseling and support programs or family members who have lost a child

For Children:

• When Someone Dies: A Children’s Mindful How-To Guide on Grief and Loss by Andrea Dorn
• Lost in the Clouds: A Gentle Story to Help Children Understand Death and Grief by DK & Tom Tinn-Disbury
• The Memory Box: A Book About Grief by Joanna Rowland
• The Sad Dragon by Steve Herman
• How I Feel: Grief Journal for Kids by Mia Roldan
• The Good Mourning by Seldon Peden
• Why Do I Feel So Sad? by Tracy Lambert-Prater
• My Sibling Still: for those who’ve lost a sibling to miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant death by Megan Lacourrege
• Lifetimes by Bryan Mellonie

For Adolescents:

• The Anxiety Toolkit for Teens by Teen Thrive
• A Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teens and Their Friends by Helen Fitzgerald
• Coloring the Shades of Grief and Healing by Lyn Ragan & Dorothy Pigue
• Grief Recovery for Teens by Coral Popowitz
• Straight Talk About Death for Teenagers by Earl Grollman
• When A Friend Dies: A Book For Teens About Grieving and Healing by Marilyn Gootman
• Welcome to the Grief Club by Janine Kwoh
• Healing Your Grieving Heart For Teens: 100 Practical Ideas by Alan Wolfelt

For Parents:

• The Grieving Child: A Parent’s Guide by Helen Fitzgerald
• A Parent’s Guide to Managing Childhood Grief by Katie Lear
• A Parent’s Guide to Raising Grieving Children by Phyllia Silverman
• 35 Ways to Help a Grieving Child by The Dougy Center

Grief Camps:

• Camp Erin 

• Camp Kesem 

• Camp Kita 

• Circle Camps 

• Wildflower

• TAPS Military Kids Grief

• Comfort Zone Camp 

• Experience Camps 

• Crossroads Kids 

• Camp Angel Wings 
• Camp Kangaroo

Online Resources:

• Hope’s House
• Dougy Center

Books:

• Life After Suicide by Jennifer Ashton
• Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide by Christopher Lukas

Online Resources:

• Alliance of Hope: Resources for survivors of suicide loss
• Everytown: Resources for survivors of gun violence
• Circles: Share. Not Shame.
• Heartbeat: Survivors after suicide
• Support After a Death by Overdose

• Surviving the Death of a Sibling by T.J. Wray
• Twinless Twins Support

Books, Journals, & Workbooks:

• At a Loss: Finding Your Way After Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Infant Death by Donna Rothert
• Grieving Together: A Couples Journey Through Miscarriage by Laura & Franco Fanucci
• Healing Your Grieving Heart After Miscarriage by Alan Wolfelt 
• Holding Onto Love After You’ve Lost a Baby by Gary Chapman and Candy McVicar
• Letters to My Baby in Heaven: Grief Therapy Journal by Rami Naril Edtions
• Life After Baby Loss by Nicola Gaskin
• Miscarriage Grief Journal by Rachel Floyd
• The Miscarriage Map by Dr. Sunita Osborn
• The Miscarriage Map Workbook by Dr. Sunita Osborn
• Saying Goodbye: A Personal Story of Baby Loss by Zoe Clark-Coates
• Unexpecting: Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss by Rachel Lewis
• Unimaginable: Life After Baby Loss by Brooke Taylor

Online Resources

• FirstCandle.org

Books:

• Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them) by Sallie Tisdale
• All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak by Caleb Wilde
• After This: When Life Is Over, Where Do We Go? by Claire Bidwell Smith
• The Art of Dying Well by Katy Butler
• A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death by Dr. BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
• Confessions of a Funeral Director by Caleb Wilde
• On Death and Dying by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing by Anita Moorjani
• Farewell: Vital End of Life Questions by Dr. Edward Creagan & Sandra Wendel
• Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying by Maggie Callanan
• For You When I’m Gone by Steve Leder
• From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlyn Doughty
• Let’s Talk About Death (over Dinner) by Michael Hebb
• Life Lessons by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross & David Kessler
• Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe by Laura Lynne Jackson
• That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri
• The Undying by Anne Boyer
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Online Resources:

• Cake: End-of-life planning
• End Well: Making the end of life part of life
• Going With Grace: End-of-life planning, training, and support
• Good To Go: Unconventional advance planning 
• Lantern: End-of-life planning
• Mettle Health: Support and Guidance for Serious Illness
• Remembering A Life: A guide to honoring a life well lived
• SEOL CARE: End-of-life support for the disability community

• The Pet Loss Companion by Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio & Nancy Saxton-Lopez 
• Pet Loss Support: Online groups

• The Angel in My Pocket by Sukey Forbes
• Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
• Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder
• The Dead Moms Club by Kate Spencer
• The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
• From Scratch by Tembi Locke
• Future Widow by Jenny Lisk
• Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter
• H is For Hawk by Helen MacDonald
• Half a Life by Darin Strauss
• Her: A Memoir by Christa Parravani
• The Hot Young Widows Club by Nora McInerny
• Little Matches by Maryanne O’Hara
• The Long Goodbye by Megan O’Rourke
• No Happy Endings by Nora McInerny
• Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Rules of Inheritance by Claire Bidwell Smith
• Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow
• The Still Point of the Turning World by Emily Rapp Black
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala 
• Widowish by Melissa Gould
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

DEAD Talks with David Ferrugio

Griefcast with Cariad Lloyd

Last Day

Moving Beyond with Medium Fleur

What’s Your Grief

Amy Green: A video game to cope with grief

Jason B. Rosenthal: The journey through loss and grief

Lucy Kalanithi: What makes life worth living in the face of death

Maria Shriver and Claire Bidwell Smith talk about grief and loss

Nora McInerny: We don’t “move on” from grief. We move forward with it.