“Grief is not linear. It’s not a slow progression forward toward healing, it’s a zigzag, a terrible back-and-forth from devastated to okay until finally there are more okay patches and fewer devastated ones. The mind can’t handle emotions like grief and terror for any sustained period of time, so it takes some downtime.” – Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies: A Novel

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Healthy Grief


Whether a Griever or Support, this transformative guide offers you a unique path through the complexities of loss. Beyond death, grief encompasses everyday life losses including relationships, health, and hardships when what once was, is no longer. In a culture abundant with resources for how to win, acquire, and be happy, yet void of how to lose, let go, and grieve, Healthy Grief is a solution. Serving as a lifelong companion, this book explores avoiding critical life-threatening mistakes in grieving, addressing the negative impact of toxic positivity, and unlocking a personalized healing path through the 5-stage Healthy GRIEF Framework. This practical tool offers hope with 30 grief survival case studies and inspiration with free downloads. Embark on the path to healing and thrive in the midst of grief.

Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment


Written with warm compassion and profound wisdom, Tears to Triumph offers us a powerful way forward through the pain, to a deeper awareness of our feelings, our lives, and our true selves.


Being Mortal

Being Mortal Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End



The Shadow Daughter

Shadow Daughter tackles a subject we rarely discuss as a culture: Family estrangements, especially those between parents and adult children. Estrangements - between parents and children, siblings, multiple generations - are surprisingly common, and even families that aren't officially estranged often have some experience of deep conflicts. Estrangement is an issue that touches most people, one way or another, one that's still shrouded in secrecy, stigma, and shame. In addition to her personal narrative.


The Year of Magical Thinking

This powerful book is Didion’s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.


The Tunnel and the Light: Essential Insights on Living and Dying

Dr. Kubler-Ross conveys her understanding of the wisdom of the dying and encourages those in the midst of life to attend to what she calls their "unfinished business," so that they may be wiser as they face the end of life. The Tunnel and the Light conclude with "A Letter to a Child with Cancer," a poignant illustrated letter written to a young boy, Dougy.


Videos that correlate with the heart's search to find healing -

Suzanne Grace dances "Letting Yourself Be Loved"

https://youtu.be/Fhzb_pi9yLY

Suzanne performed this dance at the Healing Journeys conference in Seattle, WA in 2006. This meditative and eloquent dance is choreographed to the first cut from the "Graceful Passages" CD with words from Lew Epstein and music by award-winning composer Gary Malkin and Michael Stillwater. It invites us to ponder the eternal questions of living, dying, and the continuity of spirit.  More information at http://www.healingjourneys.org


Option B

After the life-shattering loss, Sheryl Sandberg reaches out to others in grief. As one of the best-known female executives in the world, Sheryl Sandberg had resources and support when her husband died at 47, but that didn't stop grief from engulfing her and their children. In her new book "Option B," Sandberg writes about grief and resilience in the face of adversity and offers advice for others experiencing personal tragedy. Sandberg sits down with Judy Woodruff.

https://youtu.be/sj4qQdaU_DY


Empathy: The Human Connection to Patient Care

Patient care is more than just healing -- it's building a connection that encompasses mind, body, and soul. If you could stand in someone else's shoes . . . hear what they hear. See what they see. Feel what they feel. Would you treat them differently?

https://youtu.be/cDDWvj_q-o8


What Forty Steps Taught Me About Love and Grief - Tembi Locke

"When I took the stage last spring to share insights on love, caregiving, and loss, my deepest desire was to stand in the truth of what I know. I hoped to communicate the universal need for unconditional love and connection in our daily lives. It was brave, bold, and lovingly terrifying. But I know that when each of us shares the authenticity of our individual truths, we reflect all of humanity. So here’s my corner of humanity and the forty steps that got me there". - Tembi Locke

https://youtu.be/Z65fSOl57Mo


Additional Resources -

Postpartum Support International

https://www.postpartum.net/

The Compassionate Friends

https://www.compassionatefriends.org/contact/

Mission of TAPS

https://www.taps.org/mission

Ready Nest Counseling

https://www.readynestcounseling.com/

Center for Life and Loss Transition

https://www.centerforloss.com/

Grief River

http://www.griefriver.com/

Death Cafe

https://deathcafe.com/

The Dougy Center, The National Center for Grieving Children & Families is a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon that offers support groups and services to grieving children and young adults.

https://www.dougy.org/

OptionB

At some point, we all live an Option B

Grief and hardship are part of life—and no one should have to go through them alone. We’re here to help you take care of yourself and support your loved ones through life’s most challenging moments.

https://optionb.org/


Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment.


Written with warm compassion and profound wisdom, Tears to Triumph offers us a powerful way forward through the pain, to a deeper awareness of our feelings, our lives, and our true selves.


Being Mortal 

Being Mortal Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End


The Shadow Daughter

Shadow Daughter tackles a subject we rarely discuss as a culture: Family estrangements, especially those between parents and adult children. Estrangements - between parents and children, siblings, multiple generations - are surprisingly common, and even families that aren't officially estranged often have some experience of deep conflicts. Estrangement is an issue that touches most people, one way or another, one that's still shrouded in secrecy, stigma, and shame. In addition to her personal narrative.



The Year of Magical Thinking

This powerful book is Didion’ s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.



The Tunnel and the Light: Essential Insights on Living and Dying

Dr. Kubler-Ross conveys her understanding of the wisdom of the dying and encourages those in the midst of life to attend to what she calls their "unfinished business," so that they may be wiser as they face the end of life. The Tunnel and the Light conclude with "A Letter to a Child with Cancer," a poignant illustrated letter written to a young boy, Dougy.


Suzanne Grace dances "Letting Yourself Be Loved"

https://youtu.be/Fhzb_pi9yLY

Suzanne performed this dance at the Healing Journeys conference in Seattle, WA in 2006. This meditative and eloquent dance is choreographed to the first cut from the "Graceful Passages" CD with words from Lew Epstein and music by award-winning composer Gary Malkin and Michael Stillwater. It invites us to ponder the eternal questions of living, dying, and the continuity of spirit.  More information at http://www.healingjourneys.org


Option B

After the life-shattering loss, Sheryl Sandberg reaches out to others in grief. As one of the best-known female executives in the world, Sheryl Sandberg had resources and support when her husband died at 47, but that didn't stop grief from engulfing her and their children. In her new book "Option B," Sandberg writes about grief and resilience in the face of adversity and offers advice for others experiencing personal tragedy. Sandberg sits down with Judy Woodruff.

https://youtu.be/sj4qQdaU_DY


Empathy: The Human Connection to Patient Care

Patient care is more than just healing -- it's building a connection that encompasses mind, body, and soul. If you could stand in someone else's shoes . . . hear what they hear. See what they see. Feel what they feel. Would you treat them differently?

https://youtu.be/cDDWvj_q-o8