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Helping With Loss
  • Home
  • About
    • The Reason
    • The Back Story
  • Loss
    • Experiencing Loss
    • Loss of A Parent
    • Loss of A Child
    • Loss of A Friend
    • Loss of A Pet
    • Loss of Opportunity
    • Loss of Health
    • Senior Years
    • End Of Life
    • Loss of a Relationship
    • Secondary Loss
    • Financial Loss
  • Offering Support
    • Practical Support
    • Gifts from Nature
    • Care Packages
    • Groceries & Food Baskets
    • Child Care
    • General Support
  • Resources
    • Resources
    • Professional Support
    • Support Groups
    • Welfare Support
    • Books & Journals
    • Movement
    • Podcasts & Audiobooks
    • Meditation & Mindfulness
  • Blog
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Books & Journals

Grief Journals

A way to channel your thoughts and try and make sense of your grief.

A Guided Journal

Offered by Sarah Robb from Spring With Sarah, this guided journal has 11 chapters to help you navigate your grief journey: Managing The Early Days, Grief Archetypes, Support Systems, Emotions, Secondary Loss, Self-Care Strengths, Healthy Distraction, Gratitude, Connection and Continuing the Bond 

Sue Ryder Grief Guide

An online journal creating as a way to process grief and where you can find information, advice and resources to help you throughout.

How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed

A Journal for grief unlike any other.

Building on her best selling book,It’s OK that You’re Not OK, Megan Devine brings you this illustrated guided journal.

The Loss Foundation

Grief worksheets designed to deepen your understanding of the complexities of loss. Their Grief Handouts are designed to support therapeutic work by offering structured exercises and guidance for navigating grief.

 


Books on Grief

There is a wealth of resources available to help with the process of grief and loss.

Resilient Grieving

How to find your way through devastating loss, by Dr Lucy Hone.  Resilient Grieving is a practical, research-based guide to finding your own path to recovery from devastating loss.  Dr Lucy Hone works in the field of resilience psychology, helping ordinary people exposed to real-life traumatic situations. 

It’s Okay to Laugh

In the span of a few months, McInerny miscarried her second child, lost her father to cancer, and then buried her husband, Aaron, who died from glioblastoma, a horrible brain cancer with an achingly low survival rate. It’s Okay to Laugh is Nora McInerny’s first book, a memoir of those early years as she attempted to put her life back together and parent her young child.

It's OK That You're Not OK

Challenging conventional wisdom on grief, a pioneering therapist offers a new resource for those experiencing loss, and meeting grief and loss in a culture that doesn't understand. 

By Megan Devine  

When Breath Becomes Air

This memoir was finished posthumously by Paul Kalanithi’s wife, Lucy. It’s the story of a young neurosurgeon who dies of metastatic lung cancer at the age of 37, leaving a baby daughter behind. He writes of grappling with his diagnosis and treatment, and the quality of time itself—along with his remorse that after spending most of his life in school, he had barely begun to live.


Long Term Illness

A list of books that specialise in supporting anyone who is experiencing grief, and needing emotional, mental or spiritual support

Tuesdays with Morrie

A 1997 memoir by American author Mitch Albom about a series of visits Albom made to his former Brandeis University sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz was dying from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), otherwise known as Motor Neuron disease.

For You When I'm Gone

A  guide to writing a meaningful letter about your life - writing an ethical will, a document that includes stories and reflections about your past, is an ancient tradition. It can include joy and regrets, and ultimately becomes both a way to remember a loved one who is gone and a primer on how to live a better, happier life.


For Children

A list of books which specialise in supporting children who are working through loss and grief

When Children Grieve

For Adults to Help Children Deal with Death, Divorce, Pet Loss, Moving, and Other Losses.

By John W. James and Russell Friedman with Dr. Leslie Landon Matthews

When Children Grieve

 Parents, educators, therapists, and social workers alike have declared The Invisible String the perfect tool for coping with all kinds of separation anxiety, loss, and grief. 

By Patrice Karst (Author)


Loss of a Pet

A list of books which specialise in supporting anyone who is grieving the loss of a furry friend

The Grief Recovery Handbook for Pet Loss

A book for anyone missing their furry friends.

by Russell Friedman, Cole James and John W. James   

The Pet Loss Guide

The Pet Loss Guide - support for those who have lost their pets. By Millie Jacobs 

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