grief resources

A Grief Guide & Healing Workbook, by Paul Alexander

The companionable texts of this workbook quietly lead into writing exercises and guided visualizations. Includes a Guided Imagery CD for Renewal and Peace.

 

A Grief Like No Other: Surviving the Violent Death of Someone You Love, by Kathleen O’Hara

In response to the brutal murder of her son, therapist O’Hara developed this seven-stage process to help others in making the journey to healing.

 

A Handbook for Widowers, by Ed Ames 

Ed Ames offers friendly, gentle, yet firm advice drawn of his own and other widowers’ experience. Concise chapters address the complex emotional realities of grief, and also address the practical details that must follow the loss of one’s wife.

 

Don’t Take My Grief Away, by Doug Manning

In his conversational style, Manning takes the reader through all the emotions and experiences that accompany the death of a loved one. The first section of the book deals with the first few days after a death, and all the plans and decisions that need to be made. The second picks up on the grief journey and provides guidance, assurances and hope for healing.

 

Finding Your Way When Your Spouse Dies, by Ed. Linus Mundy

In this compact book, a variety of “fellow travelers” offer the help, wisdom and inner strength they have gained after losing a life partner.

 

Going On – A Pathway Through Sorrow, by Jane Woods Shoemaker

An easy-to-read overview of some of the common feelings, experiences and challenges of widowhood. The author writes from the healing that eventually came after the death of her husband and best friend. Shoemaker writes about loneliness, outlook, children, financial matters, and the losses and gains related to old and new friendships.

 

Healing Grief, 5th Edition, by Amy Hillyard Jensen

This booklet describes various ways grief is expressed by adults after the death of a loved one.

 

Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child, by Paul Rosenblatt 

Rosenblatt and the many couples he interviewed for this book think that while the challenges are great, marriages can survive, even deepen, after the loss of a child. The chapters go right to the core as they face the financial, emotional, gender differences, religious and sexual issues grieving parents often have. Rosenblatt is at his best as he distills and provides insight and tools parents can use to rebuild their lives.

 

How to go on Living When Someone You Love Dies, by Therese Rando 

Rando, a well respected therapist and researcher, offers assurance and information about how people grieve differently, and in their own ways.

 

I’m Grieving As Fast As I Can: How Young Widows and Widowers Can Cope and Heal, by Linda Feinberg 

The unique painful issues arise with the death of a young spouse – single parenthood, financial insecurity, isolation – often seem unbearable. Linda Feinberg, a specialist in grief and loss therapy, uses interviews and professional experience to guide young widows and widowers through a grieving process unique to them.

 

No Time for Goodbyes: Coping with Sorrow, Anger, and Injustice After a Tragic Death, by Janice Harris Lord

Survivors grieving the tragic death of a loved one will find here deep understanding and insight as well as detailed practical information on dealing with legal and financial issues.

 

The Heart of Grief, by Thomas Attig

This book gives heartfelt descriptions, through many real real life stories, of how people have faced loss without losing connection. Attig shows how grief can be a transition from loving in the presence to loving in the absence.

 

Tough Transitions, by Elizabeth Harper Neeld

Pertinent, healing, original, inspiring are adjectives that describe this book. It illuminates pitfalls, lights the way, shows how navigating tough transitions can be achieved.

 

What Will Help Me? / How Can I Help?, by James Miller 

This booklet address two subjects in one. What Will Help Me? offers twelve things to remember when you have suffered a loss. How Can I Help? has twelve things to do when someone you know suffers a loss.

 

When Bad Things Happen to Good People, by Harold S. Kushner

Having wrestled with the questions “Why me? Why him?” this grieving father and Rabbi emerged with some non-traditional responses. For more than 25 years, this classic has brought consolation to thousands, of many faiths.

 

When Someone You Love Completes Suicide, by Sondra Sexton-Jones

What to expect, what you may feel, and reassurance that it is survivable when a loved one completes suicide.

 

When Winter Follows Spring - Surviving the Death of an Adult Child, by Dorothy Ferguson

The death of a child, by any means, at any age, seems a most cruel reversal of nature. Filled with understanding for this often unacknowledged loss, this book offers advice for surviving the grief process.

 

Widow To Widow, by Genevieve Davis Ginsburg

Ginsburg, an author, therapist, and fellow widow offers sage advice for coping with the loss of a husband. With testimonies from other widows, she walks you through the many challenges, both expected and unexpected, from learning to travel and eat alone, to surviving holidays and anniversaries, from starting a community support group, to dating again.

 

Suggested Reading for Your Kids' Grief

A Keepsake Book of Special Memories, by Laurie Van-Si & Lynn Powers

This spiral-bound book enables children ages 4 - 10 to express their grief while capturing memories. By collecting photographs of the person who has died, by writing, drawing and storytelling children use the artistic process to enter their emotional and bodily feelings.

 

A Volcano In My Tummy: Helping Children To Handle Anger, by Elaine Whitehouse & Warwick Pudney

Children who experience grievous losses of all kinds experience a multitude of intense emotions. Some, like anger, can be difficult to manage as the child or teen may lack competency in handling them. A Volcano in My Tummy will help caring adults provide coaching and guidance to 6 – 15 year olds on how they can understand and channel their anger so they can live successful, non-hurtful lives.

 

After a Murder, by the Dougy Center

This hands-on workbook helps children learn they are not alone. Activities and word games normalize intense feelings and explain confusing actions of the police, the media, and the courts. Examples of how other children have coped help in the healing process.

 

Barklay and Eve - Explaining Cancer to Children, by Karen Carney

Barklay and Eve are dogs that talk. With drawings and easy-to-understand words they tell what cancer is, how it grows and is treated. Here children learn what to expect when adults they care about face cancer.

 

Children Also Grieve: Talking About Death and Healing, by Linda Goldman

The book follows the progress of Henry the dog through his family’s loss of their grandfather. He explains how each member of the family deals with their grief and how they learn to understand it. He shows ways to heal by sharing memories, and presents a personal memory book for a child to create.

 

Coping with the Death of a Brother or Sister, by Ruth Ann Ruiz

This book presents information and comfort in easy to read terms and in a language that will resonate with teen readers. The Death of A Brother or Sister does not candy coat the challenges of this great loss, but it does make clear inroads into normalizing the grief experience as it may be felt by siblings and parents.

 

You Are Not Alone, by Lynne Hughes

The loss of a parent has been called “the loss that is forever,” and young people who have suffered this loss feel especially different than those around them. In this book, Lynne Hughes, founder of Comfort Zone Camp, and her teenage campers share their stories and discuss what helps, what doesn’t, what “stinks,” and ways to stay connected to loved ones. Buy this book in our store.