Books, Websites, and Podcasts

Books

  • Bolton, Iris, My Son…My Son…A Guide to Healing After Death. Loss, or Suicide
  • Bolton, Iris, Voices of Healing and Hope, Conversations on Grief after Suicide
  • Bowler, Kate, Everything Happens for a Reason (and other lies I’ve loved)
  • Devine, Megan, It’s OK that You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture that Doesn’t Understand
  • Didion, Joan, The Year of Magical Thinking
  • Fernandez, Carla, Renegade Grief
  • Fitzgerald, Helen, The Grieving Child, A Parent’s Guide​
  • Greyber, Daniel, Faith Unravels:  A Rabbi’s Struggle with Grief and God
  • Haugk, Kenneth, Journeying through Grief
  • Hickman, Martha Whitmore, Healing After Loss:  Daily Meditations for Working thru Grief
  • Hsu, Albert, Grieving a Suicide: A Loved One’s Search for Comfort, Answers, and Hope
  • Jouaud, Suleika, Suleika Jaouad Biography: A Life Interrupted
  • Kessler, David, Finding Meaning: the Sixth Stage of Grief
  • Lewis, CS, A Grief Observed
  • McWilliams, Peter; Bloomfield, Harold H.; Colgrove, Melba – How To Survive The Loss of a Love
  • Mitsch, Raymond and Brookside, Lynn, Grieving the Loss of Someone You Love
  • Noonan, Nell, A Widow’s Prayer
  • Schwiebert, Pat, Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss
  • Sittser, Jerry,  A Grace Disguised
  • Van Duivendyk, Tim, The Unwanted Gift of Grief
  • Williams, Jane, Mysterious Moments: Thoughts that Transform Grief
  • Wolterstorff, Nicholas, Lament for a Son

Websites

Center for Loss & Life Transition (center in Colorado committed to helping those who grieve) – Centerforloss.com

Grief.com (wide range of resources for those who are grieving and those who seek to support grieving people) – Grief.com

Grief Share (network of grief support groups using a specific model; usually via churches) – Griefshare.org

Help With Grief (resources for people experiencing a variety of losses) – Helpwithgrief.org
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Open to Hope (resources to help people find hope after loss; includes podcasts) – Opentohope.com

988 Lifeline (suicide prevention support by phone, text, or online chat)  – Suicidepreventionlifeline.org

What’s Your Grief? (extensive grief support resources in many formats) – whatsyourgrief.com/about-us/

Widowed Parent (support for widowed people and their children) – Widowedparent.org
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Reimagine (support for people experiencing loss of many kinds) – letsreimagine.org

Ava’s Flowers has gathered some helpful information all in one place:
https://www.avasflowers.net/a-guide-to-grief-stages-of-grief-coping-tips-sympathy-flowers-and

Podcasts

Many of the websites listed on this page also include podcasts. 

Nora McInerny, “Terrible, Thanks for Asking”

Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon  – scalawagmagazine.org/great-grief/
Many of the websites listed above also include podcasts.

Nora McInerny, “Terrible, Thanks for Asking”

Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon  – scalawagmagazine.org/great-grief/