GRIEF RESOURCES

Grief Literacy - Understanding & Navigating Change and Loss slide show -  Alyssa Rose  

Alyssa Rose Healing Arts On Grief & Belonging: Watch the TEDx talk Read the latest on Substack @GriefIntegration

LOCAL GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS:

Free groups are available at:

Hopewell House:   Grief Support - Hopewell House    Hopewell House offers free, compassionate grief support led by professionally trained volunteers. Grounded in deep listening and reverence for the sacred journey of life, loss, and healing, we provide a welcoming space for connection and support. Our services include a monthly grief ritual and grief groups within a six-session series. There are also periodic grief workshops that will be listed on this page when they are available.

Providence Hospice Services: Bereavement Services | Hospice | Providence.  All of our services are offered free of charge and include:

• Grief support groups

• Individual and family grief counseling - Bereavement social workers provide short-term individual and family counseling to children, teens and adults who are grieving the death of a loved one who died while receiving hospice care.

• Telephone bereavement support and referrals - Bereavement social workers and specially-trained bereavement volunteers support grieving individuals over the telephone. Information about bereavement resources in the community as well as referrals to local grief counselors are also available.

Other Hospice Organizations often offer grief support services. 

PODCAST:

Anderson Cooper’s All There Is - Podcast on Death and Grief

Search for this on any podcast list - CNN podcasts, Spotify, etc.

Grief can feel so lonely but talking about it, and listening to others share their grief experiences helps. Anderson Cooper leads a deeply personal exploration of grief in all its complexities.  In moving and honest discussions (with Stephen Colbert, Ken Burns, Kelsey Grammer, Doris Kearns Goodwin and many others), he learned from others who’ve experienced life-altering losses.  It’s about the people we lose, the people left behind,and how we can live on - with loss and with love. In addition to listening, visit the All There is online grief community at cnn.com/allthereisonline .

BOOKS:

The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief By Francis Weller

With grief rituals, reflection prompts, and deep, ageless wisdom, this book is a genre-defining invitation to healing and renewal. Weller helps us rediscover what modernity has made us forget…and reconnects us to our most profound and human yearnings. Less a self-help volume than a blessing, this book is a homecoming for the soul. (from the book jacket).