Supporting Someone Grieving
I AM GRIEVING
CHILDREN & GRIEF
Free Inner Sojourn Created Resources
(Reading Materials, Worksheets, Diary Prompts & More)
Grief Expert Answers Your Questions About Grief and Loss
Empathy Vs Sympathy
Pet Loss
University of Guelph Vetrinary Clinic Resources
Ontario Pet Loss
Pets at Peace
Pet Loss & Memorial Services
The Pet Loss Support Page Canada Resources
Rainbow Bridge
AMC - Schwarzman Animal Medical Centre (US Based)
Cummings School of Vetrinary Medicine - Pet Loss (US Based)
Books
Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter by E.B. Bartels
Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die by Jon Katz
The Pet Loss Companion by Dolan-Del Vecchio and Ken and Nancy Saxton-Lopez
The Loss of a Pet: A Guide to Coping with the Grieving Process When a Pet Dies by Wallace Sife
When Your Pet Dies: A Guide to Mourning, Remembering and Healing by Alan D Wolfelt
For children/youth check out children grief resources
Pregnancy, Child & Infant Loss (Parent Supports)
See also “I am supporting someone grieving”
Multi Genre Resources
LGBTQ2S+
Canadian Virtual Hospice
Suicide Loss
Suicide Loss
Homicide
Homicide Support Group
To register
Email with “Support in Subject line” crcvc@crcvc.ca
or call 1-877-232-2610
Text & Chat Support
Monday – Friday 8:30am – 4:30pm EST
Text 613-208-0747
Chat via www.crcvc.ca
Grief Speaks
Supporting Children & Teens After a Homicide or Murder
Grief Book List
General Loss
Addison Brasil – First Year of Grief Club
Ram Dass – Walking Each other Home
Megan Devine – It’s OK That Your Not OK
Joan Didion – Blue Nights & The Year of Magical Thinking
Hope Edelman – The After Grief
Mary-Frances O’Connor – The Grieving Brain
Melanie Philips – Living After Loss
Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant – Option B
Francis Weller – The Wild Edge of Sorrow
Dr Alan Wolfelt – Endless list of books
Grief Recovery Handbook
Helping Bereaved
Grief Ally – Aly Bird
Ambiguous Loss
Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief by Pauline Boss
Child Loss
After The Flowers Die by Melanie Delorme
Unraveled When Loss Changes Everything by Kyle & Betty Mertens
I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye by Brooke Noel & Pamela Blaire
Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child & Comfort for the Grieving Parent’s Heart by Gary Roe
Theresa Anthony – Hope Springs From a Mother’s Broken Heart
Nisha Zenoff – The Unspeakable Loss
Grieving Dads: To The Bring and Back by Kelly Farley
Sibling Loss
Surviving The Death of a Sibling by T.J. Wray
Sudden Loss
I wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye by Brooke Noel & Pamela Blair
For children’s books – see children’s grief section
MAiD
Books
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada: Key Multidisciplinary Perspectives by Jaro Kotalik (Author), David W. Shannon (Editor)
This is Assisted Dying by Dr Stefanie Green
The Last Doctor: Lessons in Living from the Front Lines of Medical Assistance in Dying by Jean Marmoreo, Johanna Schneller
The Many Faces of MAiD: What to Expect When Someone You Know Chooses Medical Assistance in Dying by Cynthia Clarke & Carol Cram
Podcasts, Documentary, and YouTube Channels About Grief
What’s Your Grief
Podcast
Refuge in Grief
Podcast with Megan Devine
The Grief Gang
Podcast
All There Is
Podcast with Anderson Cooper on his journey through grief
Grief Out Loud
Podcast by The Dougy Center
Grief is a Sneaky B!tch
Available on Apple & Spotify
Terrible Thanks for Asking
Podcast
Grief Club: The Podcast with Addison Brasil
Available on Apple & Spotify
The Mindfulness & Grief
Podcast
The Grief Channel
A YouTube dedicated to normalizing conversations around grief, death and dying.
We Don’t Move On From Grief.
We move forward with it.
Ted Talk with Nora McInerny
Grief Stories
Speaking Grief
Documentary
TV Shows of Movies that Explore Death, Loss and Grief
TV Series
After Life
This Is US
Sorry For Your Loss
Six Feet Under
Pushing Daisies – Dark comedy
Big Little Lies
Kidding
The Good Life – Comedy
Sorry For Your Loss
Go On
Euphoria – grief and addiction
Never Have I Ever – 15 yr old coping with dad’s death
Fleabag
Time of Death – 8 episodes following terminally ill people as they approach EOL
TV Episodes
How I Met Your Mother – Marshall’s grief of his father
One Tree Hill – Haley’s grief experiences
Jane the Virgin – Jane’s reaction to Michael’s death
West Wing – President’s Bartlet’s crisis of faith after Mrs Landingham was killed by a drunk driver
Glee – Finn’s death
Grey’s Anatomy – Meredith explaining Derek’s death to their children & Cristina’s description of what happens after death
WandaVision – Wanda’s grief over Vision and her brother
8 Simple Rules – Paul’s death and the aftermath
Movies
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Manchester by the Sea
Ordinary People
Pieces of a Woman
Jackie
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
P.S. I Love You
The Fault in Our Stars
Ghost
A Walk to Remember
Meet Joe Black
Charlie St. Cloud
We Bought a Zoo
Children Movies About Death & Dying
Soul
Coco
Grief Groups
Clinicians and Educators
Canadian Virtual Hospice (Courses and Conferences)
Sick Kid, Garry Hurvitz Centre for Community Mental Health (Children’s grief and bereavement certificate program)
BON Education & Resources
OTHER RESOURCES FOR IMMEDIATE HELP
Crisis Services Canada
Kid's Help Line 24-hour crisis line: 1-800-688-6868
CALL or TEXT 988
Canada’s suicide crisis helpline.
Support via phone or text 24 hours a day
In Canada Text “Connect” to 686868
If it is an emergency
Call 911
or go to your nearest Emergency Department
