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📖 Books for the grieving & sad times 📖

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Books that help us learn and move through grief. Reading is a way to help us know we are not alone in our thoughts and that are feelings are valid 🤍
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Grief Books to help process

 
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The one book I come back to again and again
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief
 
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another wonderful book to help understand and make meaning of grief
Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief
 
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Real stories that are raw and, well, resilient
RESILIENT A.F.: Stories of Resilience
 
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Another wonderful educational book on grief… very validating!
The Grieving Brain: Science of Learning from Love
 
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This is a nice and helpful tool to go along with her book- It’s OK You’re Not OK
How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed: Grief Journal
 
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Our baby, full of stories of grief and resilience
The Global Resilience Project
 
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Our third book- even more stories of grief and resilience!
RESILIENT A.F.: Stories of Resilience Volume 2
 
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About grief, loss, isolation. It’s beautiful and talks about my new favourite concept- bearing “with”ness
The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Hearts
 
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A magazine for grief?! Amazing! We love Kera’s mission
Get Griefy Magazine
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Brene just gets it… great read to understand the full emotional experience
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection
 
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A great read on how trauma impacts you down to the cellular level
The Body Keeps the Score: Healing Trauma
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Children's books to help through grief

because grief is experienced at all ages 

 
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Wonderful book to help children understand death and dying
When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death
 
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wonderful book to help kids understand they can stay connected to their loved ones
The Invisible String Book By Patrice Karst, ('pi')
 
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Another wonderful book to help children understand the difference in lifetimes people have
Lifetimes: Beautiful Way to Explain Death eBook
 
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Highly recommended to help children process loss.
I Can't Believe They're Gone: Kid's Grief Book
 
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its very important to talk about grief early on
Grief Is an Elephant|Hardcover

Memoirs about grief

 
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A raw and honest take on losing your mom
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
 
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Such a well written memoir on life, love and loss
From Here to the Great Unknown
 
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An intimate telling on her own experience of grief
Here After by Amy Lin
 
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Hands down one of the best books you’ll read on death, dying, and grief
The In-Between: Unforgettable Final Moments
 
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Wow. So beautiful and sad.
A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
 
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Wonderful memoir about the loss of a partner at a young age
It's Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool Too)
 
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a must read
When Breath Becomes Air: Pulitzer Prize Finalist|Hardcover
 
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wonderful. short.
Notes on Grief|Hardcover
 
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Beautiful beautiful book
A Matter of Death and Life

Fiction books about grief

Depictions of grief in novels
 
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Wow. One of my top favourite books ever
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
 
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This book is like a gut punch 💔
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara