Benable — create shareable lists of things you recommend!
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Resources for New Widows, Other Bereaved Folks, and People That Love Them.
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items When someone you love loses someone they love, it's hard to know what to do. These resources are perfect for finding the next steps.
I love these folks. They host many many virtual events that deal with every part of the grieving process and every type of grief. Well not every type of grief but LOTS of kinds of grief. ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT, they address different TIMES in the grief...
Reimagine | Transforming adversity, loss, and mortality
It's an event, it's a movement…it's both. Death Cafes are happening worldwide and they're a great way to start conversations about end of life and death in a comfortable atmosphere! Not for acute grief or recent losses, Death Cafes are more preventat...
Welcome to Death Cafe
I've been known to make fun of Camp Widow's name (I'm allowed…I'm a two time widow) but I love Soaring Spirits, the umbrella organization and all the resources they've put together. This is a direct link to all their connection programs, including th...
Widowed Village - Created by widowed people for widowed people. We get you.
If you'd like your grief and death information evidence based and imminently meme-able, this going to be your go-to. Their website is divided up into purpose of visit (eg griever, grief support, professional grief support) and they've been developing...
What's Your Grief -
These are the Reimagine folks also, but it's the youtube collection of videos of their past events--263 videos as of this writing. You can sort the normal youtube ways (oldest/newest/most popular) but also look at their playlist feature to find whate...
Reimagine-Videos of All Previous Events
This is the official podcast of What's Your Grief (motto: no tilted heads or soothing tones) and it includes resources and information not found elsewhere on the site, including interviews with grief influencers (yes that is kind of a thing), explori...
What's Your Grief but listening now(the podcast)
Although not everything on the Plan B website feels relatable to a non wealthy person who has sustained loss (although wealthy people need to go somewhere, right) I love this video series on self compassion. It focuses on the secondary trauma we can ...
Option B: video lessons on self-confidence & self-compassion
This podcast advertises itself as “surprisingly funny” and includes interviews with widows from all over widowworld…or widow-dom, or whatever it's called. Hopeful, funny, great production values!
https://widowwedonow.com/
If you'd like your widow support with a side of snark, and especially if you'd like to interact with that snark anonymously, avail yourself of this active and supportive subreddit.
r/widowers--the perfect anonymous connection
Okay okay I am the author of this essay, so perhaps I'm not entirely subjective. But I think memorial tattoos are an AMAZING idea. And also, can be very useful.
Ashes to Ashes, Trust to Trust
This is the instagram for a huge UK wide clearinghouse of grief groups. Grief recovery comes in all shapes and sizes, and we all need a slightly different recipe that works with our loss and our own personality. Use this feed as a way to shop for ing...
Instagram (@thegoodgrieftrust)
Did you know that 5 percent of all US adults in a long term romantic relationship are in open relationships? There's so little written about the challenges (and gifts) of loss within polyamorous relationships; this amazing PDF is the go-to resource.
End-of-life Planning for Non-monogamy — OPEN (Organization for Polyamory and Ethical Non-monogamy)
Video games. Grief. They go together like….well, this is clearly a need especially for Gen Z and younger, so this initiative is going to be fascinating and useful to those who support their losses.
Minecraft - Experience Camps
Most grieving folks have no time/patience for silliness and sentimentality, yet people who have lost someone are often surrounded by silly sentimental content. But not Grief Sucks. It's meant for teenagers, sure, but it's relatable (eg "the dreaded q...
Grief Sucks --Teens and grief
If you're looking for virtual or IRL (in Portland OR) support for LGBT folks who have sustained a loss, check out the many many offerings from The Queer Grief Club; some support, some educational, all centering LGBT people.
Instagram (@queergriefclub)
This webinar, presented by a NJ group and facilitated by the creator of Queer Grief Club, is a great primer for learning about the losses (death and otherwise) that LGBT people may face.
Community Webinar: Understanding LGBTQ Grief and Cultivating Inclusive Support