Supporting women in knowing what they can do next after a loss, to provide tools for healing and finding happiness
The death of someone close to you can be emotionally and physically draining, and possibly debiliatating. Different people handle grief differently and finding your way through this is important as you still have a life to live, and a hole to fill. We have listed some websites that can help with the loss and your missing of your loved one.
Please see specific sections for loss of your child or helping your child with dealing with bereavement, being widowed young and death of your parent.
Websites Offering Support:
The Bereavement Trust
is a National Freephone Helpline, operating every evening of the year, without exception. Helplines available in English, Chinese and Asian languages.
NHS
offers some useful insights into bereavement.
Moodjuice Self-help Guide
provides a great self help guide for you to view and print.
GrabLife
provides activity support weekends and ongoing peer support for bereaved young adults (18-30), helping them identify signs of grief and embrace the future.
Due to the challenge of college or a new career, or the fact that they’re away from family support networks with friends enjoying their 20s, young adults tend to receive little understanding and support when they are bereaved. They can feel isolated as they grieve or alternatively suppress their feelings, assuming the death has had little or no affect. AtaLoss.org is therefore providing activity support weekends, specially designed for 18-30 year olds who have suffered bereavement at any time in their life, whether or not there is current emotional pain.
Funeral Services Guide
aims to be the only online resource that you’ll ever need when handling your, or your loved one’s final affairs, covering everything from coping emotionally, to step-by-step guides on handling practicalities with minimal stress.
Cruse
is there to support you after the death of someone close.
Care for the Family
Losing a brother or sister early in life is something no one expects – it changes everything. The gap they leave is huge.
This unique event is for anyone in their 20s and 30s living with loss after the death of a sibling.
At a Loss
helps you find appropriate and local bereavement support via their signposting website.
Books on this subject:
Seven Choices
This book maps the complete grieving and change process and provides a way to respond to change by identifying seven positive choices that lead to a “new normal.” These positive choices bring healing and stability and show how to avoid getting stuck in mourning, anger, bitterness and sadness.
An inspiring and profoundly moving book, Seven Choices offers hope, comfort, and advice to those who are experiencing change and loss. Dr. Elizabeth Harper Neeld guides the reader through the often confusing range of emotions and issues that occur during the process of finding equilibrium after change and loss.
It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand
In 2009, on a beautiful sunny day, Megan Devine witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner Matt. “All my professional experience as a therapist felt meaningless,” she writes. “Grief literature is loaded with well-intended advice that can actually worsen and extend someone’s pain. We just don’t know how to handle loss in our culture.” Megan has dedicated herself to helping people find a new way to deal with loss that honors our experience without trying to “solve” grief.
With It’s OK That You’re Not OK, Megan reveals a path for navigating grief and loss not by trying to escape it, but by learning to live inside of it with more grace and strength. Through stories, research, life tips, and mindfulness-based practices, she offers a unique guide through an experience we all must face. Here she debunks the culturally prescribed goal of returning to a normal, “happy” life, replacing it with the skills and tools to help us experience and witness the pain of loss in ourselves and others–so we may meet our grief knowing it to be a natural step in the greater journey of love.
Videos on this subject:
Advice on how to deal with grief
A person asks online for advice on how to deal with grief. This reply from ‘Snow’ is beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNysAbqUA9U