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📖 Books for the grieving & sad times 📖
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The Griefy Gals - Alana Kaplan and Blair Kaplan Venables
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
Children's books to help through grief
Memoirs about grief
Fiction books about grief
Grief Books to help process
The one book I come back to again and again
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief
another wonderful book to help understand and make meaning of grief
Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief
Real stories that are raw and, well, resilient
RESILIENT A.F.: Stories of Resilience
Another wonderful educational book on grief… very validating!
The Grieving Brain: Science of Learning from Love
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
Our baby, full of stories of grief and resilience
The Global Resilience Project
Our third book- even more stories of grief and resilience!
RESILIENT A.F.: Stories of Resilience Volume 2
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
A magazine for grief?! Amazing! We love Kera’s mission
Get Griefy Magazine
Brene just gets it… great read to understand the full emotional experience
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection
A great read on how trauma impacts you down to the cellular level
The Body Keeps the Score: Healing Trauma
Children's books to help through grief
because grief is experienced at all ages
Wonderful book to help children understand death and dying
When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death
wonderful book to help kids understand they can stay connected to their loved ones
The Invisible String Book By Patrice Karst, ('pi')
Another wonderful book to help children understand the difference in lifetimes people have
Lifetimes: Beautiful Way to Explain Death eBook
Highly recommended to help children process loss.
I Can't Believe They're Gone: Kid's Grief Book
its very important to talk about grief early on
Grief Is an Elephant|Hardcover
Memoirs about grief
A raw and honest take on losing your mom
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
Such a well written memoir on life, love and loss
From Here to the Great Unknown
An intimate telling on her own experience of grief
Here After by Amy Lin
Hands down one of the best books you’ll read on death, dying, and grief
The In-Between: Unforgettable Final Moments
Wow. So beautiful and sad.
A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
Wonderful memoir about the loss of a partner at a young age
It's Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool Too)
a must read
When Breath Becomes Air: Pulitzer Prize Finalist|Hardcover
wonderful. short.
Notes on Grief|Hardcover
Beautiful beautiful book
A Matter of Death and Life
Fiction books about grief
Depictions of grief in novels
Wow. One of my top favourite books ever
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
This book is like a gut punch 💔
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
