National Grief Awareness Week: Books that can help process loss
4 years ago

National Grief Awareness Week: Books that can help process loss

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy National Grief Awareness Week aims to normalise grief and encourages people to talk about this often uncomfortable subject. However when we do talk, and to those we trust, it can be one of the most effective ways of supporting yourself when you are bereaved – and feel like a huge relief.” The theme of this year’s event recognises that during Covid-19, many people are grieving at home and are unable to reach out to friends, family and loved ones for much-need human contact. In honour of National Grief Awareness Week, we’ve selected the books for both adults and children that may just help you better understand the grieving process.

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How to help a child through grief
1 month, 1 week ago

How to help a child through grief

The Independent  

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One Man’s Meticulous Quest to Cure Grief
3 months, 4 weeks ago

One Man’s Meticulous Quest to Cure Grief

Slate  

After Cody Delistraty’s mom died in his early 20s he decided to turn his grief into a research project with one central question: can grief be cured? Cody’s book is called The Grief Cure: Looking For the End of Loss Looking for more episodes on grief and longing? Here are some from our archive: When Grief Doesn’t Move In Stages …

Want to ease the pain of loss? Create a grief ritual
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Want to ease the pain of loss? Create a grief ritual

LA Times  

When Cody Delistraty lost his mother in 2014, he was surprised by the various ways that he, his brother and his father dealt with their grief. Read the stories In 2022, a new addition to the DSM-5 caught Delistraty’s eye: prolonged grief disorder. Delistraty’s new book, “ The Grief Cure: Looking for the End of Loss,” follows his inquisitive sampling …

How I found support in my journey through grief
8 months ago

How I found support in my journey through grief

CNN  

Editor’s note: Runner and writer Emily Halnon’s new book, “To the Gorge: Running, Grief, and Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail,” was released on May 7. Running in my mother’s honor I decided to run the 460-mile section of the Pacific Crest Trail that crosses Oregon —and to try and do it faster than any human before …

We talked to dozens of people about their experience of grief. Here’s what we learned
10 months, 1 week ago

We talked to dozens of people about their experience of grief. Here’s what we learned

ABC  

Have you ever felt a sudden pang of sadness? Grief is often imagined as a time-bound period in which one processes the pain of loss — that is, adjusts to absence and works toward "moving on". "Prolonged grief disorder" is the name given to "persistent difficulties associated with bereavement that exceeded expected social, cultural, or religious expectations". As bereaved daughter …

What does healing look like, in unruly and unpredictable grief?
1 year, 1 month ago

What does healing look like, in unruly and unpredictable grief?

Hindustan Times  

So much has changed when it comes to how we grieve. “The one thing that stands out about Millennials and Gen Z is that they have learned to walk with grief, using whatever means they have,” says life coach Chetna Chakravarthy. “I just find it hard to say my feeling to people and so social media was easier because I …

Make room for grief at the workplace too
1 year, 1 month ago

Make room for grief at the workplace too

Live Mint  

I never got the chance to meet Chandrika Mago, senior Mint editor and head of the Lounge desk, who passed on last week. I couldn’t stop thinking about how the loss of a colleague, someone we work and spend so much of our time with, impacts us and how we need to make room for grief at our workplaces too. …

"We are a grief illiterate society": A psychotherapist on how to navigate loss in an era of excess
1 year, 4 months ago

"We are a grief illiterate society": A psychotherapist on how to navigate loss in an era of excess

Salon  

Grief doesn't always arrive in predictable stages. As she writes in her new book "Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss," whether it's for a loved one, a relationship, or a job — grief is a complicated and deeply individual experience. Moffa and I talked about how to grieve for someone we had a complicated …

‘Grief is alive, wild, untamed’: How to support a partner who’s lost a loved one
2 years, 2 months ago

‘Grief is alive, wild, untamed’: How to support a partner who’s lost a loved one

LA Times  

When someone we love dies, we want to know that our partner, family and friends will be there to witness our pain and support us, in ways both practical and intangible. Psychotherapist Megan Devine, who wrote “It’s OK That You’re Not OK” after losing her partner, Matt, said it’s important to meet the grieving person where they’re at. “The only …

On grief
2 years, 8 months ago

On grief

The Hindu  

It sits with you like someone acutely aware of your most vulnerable self and asks you to probe that more deeply. For a very long time, my father’s death collapsed into everything else that was going wrong in life. If something bad happened in a day, the all-encompassing grief surrounding his death would attach to that little bad thing and …

Finding solace in sharing grief – as the Sue Ryder charity launches a new celebrity podcast
3 years, 2 months ago

Finding solace in sharing grief – as the Sue Ryder charity launches a new celebrity podcast

The Independent  

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How to make room for other people’s grief: A pandemic-era guide
3 years, 6 months ago

How to make room for other people’s grief: A pandemic-era guide

Hindustan Times  

Talk to people who have lost someone, and one finds that the simplest things helped the most in the immediate aftermath. With the loss of life simultaneously so pervasive, it’s important to find appropriate new ways to address it, and to accommodate the grief it causes, in extended family, friends, neighbours, co-workers. As children we’re shielded from it, so we …

Will we ever get over the grief of the second wave?
3 years, 6 months ago

Will we ever get over the grief of the second wave?

India Today  

By March 31, a total of 1,62,468 people had lost their lives to Covid-19 in India, according to government data. “GETTING OVER” GRIEF Amrita Kajaria, a psychotherapist with a specialisation in grief, told IndiaToday.in, “There is no such thing as ‘getting over’ grief. Apart from the additional pain of not being able to see, touch and meet those we are …

How do we deal with our collective grief?
3 years, 7 months ago

How do we deal with our collective grief?

Live Mint  

There are days when Nitya Wallia does not want to get out of bed. “It may be a long while before people find meaning given the scale of the loss they have been subjected to on a collective level,” he says. We are not used to this kind of collective grief in the air.” Making space for grief Srini Swaminathan, …

6 ways to help you cope after the death of a long-term partner
3 years, 9 months ago

6 ways to help you cope after the death of a long-term partner

The Independent  

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UK’s ‘tsunami’ of grief as coronavirus deaths pass 100,000
3 years, 11 months ago

UK’s ‘tsunami’ of grief as coronavirus deaths pass 100,000

Associated Press  

LONDON — For nine months, Gordon Bonner has been in the “hinterlands of despair and desolation” after losing his wife of 63 years to the coronavirus pandemic that has now taken the lives of more than 100,000 people in the United Kingdom. “There’s going to be a tsunami of grief and mental health issues this year, next year, ongoing, due …

How to Deal with the Grief of Losing a Loved One
4 years ago

How to Deal with the Grief of Losing a Loved One

News 18  

Losing a loved one, whether they’re family or not, is never easy. Grief is an inevitable part of life that follows the loss of a loved one and grieving is a healing process that is unique to every individual. It’s perhaps even more important now to understand how grief affects your health and how to engage in it in a …

6 Useful Tips For Anyone Grieving Their Pre-Pandemic Life
4 years, 1 month ago

6 Useful Tips For Anyone Grieving Their Pre-Pandemic Life

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING It's been one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. “Chronic grief is being experienced in many ways: through feelings of hopelessness; a sense of disbelief; avoidance of any situation that may remind someone of the loss; or loss of meaning and value in a belief system,” said John Sovec, a grief counselor in …

How To Deal With Grief : Life Kit : NPR
4 years, 7 months ago

How To Deal With Grief : Life Kit : NPR

NPR  

Grief for beginners: 5 things to know about processing loss Enlarge this image Simone Golob/Getty Images Simone Golob/Getty Images We're all experiencing some form of grief these days. And, says grief expert Terri Daniel, embrace it fully and it can shake you alive and awake like nothing else. Sponsor Message "It's an opening to a new world, a new self, …

"People think they're grieving wrong": How the anxiety you're feeling right now relates to grief
4 years, 7 months ago

"People think they're grieving wrong": How the anxiety you're feeling right now relates to grief

Salon  

They rewire your circuitry. I think we're seeing humanity at its best — and worst in some ways — but there's some really cool stuff happening. People think that this is what it's going to be, and that you're going to go through them in a very linear way that is very finite. The number one thing I hear when …

How To Grieve Loved Ones When Funerals Aren't An Option
4 years, 9 months ago

How To Grieve Loved Ones When Funerals Aren't An Option

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING It's been one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. “The psyche has a hard time comprehending death as it is, and when people are not physically surrounded by others trying to make sense of the loss, it is even more difficult to understand, and eventually accept, that their loved one is no longer …

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