GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICES
Conscious Grieving®
Embodied grief support for people navigating loss and those supporting them, honoring grief while opening to transformation.
Embracing Wisdom
Offering retreats on passionate sadness, “Living Through & Surviving Beyond the Death of a Life Partner”.
Our House
Mission: to provide the community with grief support services, education, resources, and hope.
Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing (GRASP)
For those who have lost loved one to substance abuse or addiction.
Hospice
For patients and families facing life-threatening illness. Good information about bereavement. Based on my personal experience with Hospice, I recommend them highly.
Soaring Spirit Loss Foundation
Mission: to create, and maintain, innovative peer-based grief support programs that serve a worldwide population.
National Alliance for Grieving Children
Candid conversations about grief by people in their 30’s. Useful for everyone. Beginners welcome.
Scholastic-Children & Grief
Bereavement resources for teachers and families.
HERBS FOR GRIEF
do Terra Console Essential Oils
Console Comforting Blend is the perfect companion as you close the door on sadness and take your first steps toward hope.
Homeopathy
Ignatia
CONSCIOUS FUNERALS & SUPPLIES
The Order of the Good Death
A group of funeral industry professionals, academics and artists exploring ways to prepare a death phobic culture for their inevitable mortality. Interesting videos on Youtube.
Sacred Crossings: Bringing Funerals Home
Mission: to empower families and friends to reclaim the lost art and healing ritual of a home funeral.
Saint Joseph Woodworks Caskets
Simple cypress caskets made with prays by monks.
DONATE A LIFE
One Legacy: Bridging Lives, One Legacy at a Time
Mission: to save and heal lives through organ, eye and tissue donation, provide comfort for families and inspire communities to donate life.
BOOKS
Brener, A. (2001) Mourning and Mitzvah. Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing.
Dass, R. (2001) Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying. United States: Riverhead.
Dass, R. & Levine, S. (1976) Grist for the Mill. California: Celestial Art.
Didion, J. (2005) The Year of Magical Thinking. United States: Alfred A. Knopf.
Hanson, R. (2009) The Buddha’s Brain. United States: New Harbingers Publications.
Kandal, N. (2013) There Is No Goodbye. Maine: Full Court Press.
Kingsolver, B. (2000) Prodigal Summer. Canada: HarperCollins.
Laurent, P. (1999) Grief Denied: A Vietnam Widow’s Story. United States: Catalyist.
Lewis, C.S. (1961) A Grief Observed. New York: Harper Collins.
Lewis, C.S. (1977) A Severe Mercy. New York: Bantam Books.
O’Bannon, K (2013) Reflections: A Yogi on Her Journey. Alabama: Portals Press.
Roach, G.M. & McNally, C. (2004) How Yoga Works. New Jersey: Diamond Cutter Press.
Rando, T. (1984) Grief, Dying and Death. Illinois: Research Press.
Rinpoche, S. (1993) The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. New York: Harper Collins.
Riseley, S. (2008) Love From Both Sides. Scotland: Findhorn Press.
Sanford, M. (2006) Waking. United States: Holtzbrinck Publishers.
Strayed, C. (2012) Wild. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Tatelbaum, J. (1984) The Courage to Grieve. New York: Harper Collins.
Williams, T. (1991) Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. New York: Pantheon.
Young, K. (2010) The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief & Healing. New York: Bloomsbury.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Boritzer, E. (2000) What is Death? Los Angeles: Veronica Lane Books.
Varley, S. (1984) Badger’s Parting Gifts. New York: Harper Collins.
Viorst, J. (1971) The Tenth Good Thing About Barney. New York: Aladdin Paperback.
FILMS
Anderson, P. (1999) Magnolia. Ghoulardi Film Company. Movie.
Brodsky, I. (2013) One Last Hug. HBO Documentary Films. Movie
Gutierrez, J. (2014) The Book of Life. 20th Century Fox. Movie.
Lee, A (2012) Life of Pi. 20th Century Fox. Movie.
Minghella, A. (1990) Truly Madly Deeply. BBC. Movie.
Parker, O. (2012) Now is Good. BBC. Movie.
Polser, J. (2012) Die Wand (The Wall). Coop99 Filmproduktion. Movie.
Schnabel, J. (2007) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Pathe’ Renn Productions. Movie.
Sobonya, N. (2005) The Gifts of Grief. Shining Light Productions. Video.
