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Resources: About Me
How Do You Help A Grieving Friend?
Holding Space - The Art of Helping
I am sure you have heard the words "holding space" but what does it truly mean? Holding space for someone is to be supportive and present, without judgment or opinion. It is something easier said than done. It means listening. Allowing the person to share their feelings and thoughts without fixing or the need to respond. It includes practicing empathy and compassion accepting someone's truths, no matter what they may be. Putting your needs and opinions aside, and allowing them to just be. And remember... it takes practice.
Empathy Vs Sympathy
Pet Loss
Inner Sojourn Created
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)
Multi Genre Resources
Suicide Loss
Caregivers and Grief
Homicide
Canada Resource Centre for Victims of Crimes
Know Your Rights
(The Victims Bill of Rights Act)
Financial Assistance
Homicide Support Group
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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
Grief and 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
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
Clinicians Training and Resources
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