Resources
How do I find support in my area?
- Start with your local funeral home or hospice
- Many times their bereavement support is open to the community. Even if they do not provide these services they will know who in the area can help.
- National Alliance of Grieving Children
- Grief Share
- Compassionate Friends
- Grief Share
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
800-273-8255
Helpers
- Companioning the Bereaved by Alan d. Wolfelt
- Helping People Through Grief by Delores Kuenning
- Don't Sing Songs To A Heavy Heart by Kenneth Haugk
- When Bad Things Happen To Good People by Harold S. Kushner
- Comforting Those Who Grieve by Doug Manning
- Helping Those Who Hurt By H. Norman Wright
Widows
Child Loss
- Always Andy's Mom Podcast
- Rare Bird: A Memoir Of Loss And Love by Anna Whiston-Donaldson
- Choosing To See by Mary Beth Champman
- Beyond The Valley: Finding Hope In Life's Losses by Dave Branon
- Roses In December by Marilyn Heavlin
- Life After The Death Of My Son: What I'm learning by Dennis Apple
- Grieving Dads: To the Brink and Back by Kelly Farley and David Dicola
- I Will Carry You by Angie Smith
- Infant Loss Resource: faith-45
Other Losses
- Companioning the Bereaved by Alan d. Wolfelt
- Necessary Losses by Judith Viorst
- Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman
- The Wilderness of Suicide Grief: Finding Your Way by Dr. Alan Wolfelt
- Books on Suicide
- American Association Suicidology
- Barb Smith Suicide Response Resource Network
Additional
- A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
- Grace Disguised by Jerry Sittser
- No More Faking Fine: Ending the Pretending by Esther Fleece Allen
- Don't Take My Grief Away: What To Do When You Lose a Loved One by Doug Manning
- Holding On To Hope by Nancy Guthrie
- Into The Deep by Robert Rogers
- Dancing On My Ashes by Heather Gilion & Holly Snell