A Grief Toolkit: Resources for the Brokenhearted

Books / workbooks

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller

• What Looks Like Bravery by Laurel Braitman

• It’s OK to Laugh by Nora McInerny

• Grief is Love by Marisa Renee Lee

• How to Carry What Can’t Be Fixed: A Journal For Grief by Megan Devine

• It’s OK that You’re Not OK by Megan Devine

• When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

• Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

• Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

• The dinner party book lists for every kind of grief

• Being With Grief: A book of doodles and prompts

• How to Say Goodbye by Wendy Macnaughton

• Beginners Guide to the End, BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Listening

• “Why grief - like love - is forever with Marisa Renee Lee”, We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle

• “For the eight year old in you”, On Being with Krista Tippett

• “The science and process of healing grief”, Huberman Lab podcast

• “David Kessler and Brené on grief and finding meaning”, Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

• Grief and Praise by Martin Prechtel, storyteller/traditional healer (3 parts on youtube)

• Tara Brach podcasts on grief 

• “Being with love, death and grief”, Tara Brach

• Terrible, Thanks for Asking: podcast by Nora McInerny

• On Being in a Body with guest Kate Bowler, On Being podcast

• All There Is: podcast by Anderson Cooper

Community / groups 

• The dinner party –  organized dinners to talk about grief, use buddy system, and find resources (like virtual Grief Camp)

• Queer grief club (Portland, OR) - @queergriefclub on IG for resources

• MESO - grief support for intergenerational immigrant families

• Mettle Health - wrap-around support and guidance for individuals and families to live well in the face of health challenges (chronic, terminal, and other)

Supporting someone with grief/loss

• Best and worst things to say (w/ Red Table Talk video), David Kessler

• Being a better grief friend link, The Dinner Party

For kids (or adults who want to support grieving kids)

• Comfort Zone Camp – age 7-17, free (adults can volunteer as camp counselors)

Poetry

• For Grief by John O’Donahue

• How it will happen, when by Dorianne Laux

• Sonnet XCIV by Pablo Nerudo

• When great trees fall by Maya Angelou

• The cure by Albert Huffstickler

• Queer Nature: A poetry anthology

• When I am among the trees by Mary Oliver

• Watching my friend pretend her heart is not breaking by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

• Shifting the Sun by Diana Der-Hovanessian

• Loss: poems to better weather the many waves of grief by Donna Ashworth