Transitions, Grief & Loss

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Grief and Bereavement

• Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief.
  • Joanne Cacciatore, 2017.
• It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand.
  • Megan Devine, 2018.
• The Year of Magical Thinking.
  • Joan Didion, 2007.
• Disenfranchised Grief: Recognizing hidden sorrow.
  • Kenneth Doka, 1989.
• Beyond Kübler-Ross: New perspectives on death, dying and grief.
  • Kenneth Doka, et al., 2011.
• Healing after Loss: Daily meditations for working through grief. 
  • Martha Whitmore Hickman, 2011.
• The Grief Recovery Handbook: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses including Health, Career, and Faith.
  • John W. James and Russell Friedman, 2009.
• Finding Meaning: the Sixth Stage of Grief.
  • David Kessler, 2019.
• A Grief Observed.
  • C.S. Lewis, 1983.
• To Bless the Space between us: A Book of Blessings.
  • John O'Donohue, 2008.
• The Cure for Sorrow: a Book of Blessings for Times of Grief.
  • Jan Richardson, 2016.
• Threads of Hope: an Offering for Those Who Grieve.
  • Beth Rotondo, 2004.
• Tear Soup: A recipe for healing after loss. 
  • Pat Schwiebert and Chuck DeKlyen, 2005.
• A Grace Disguised: How the soul grows through loss. 
  • Jerry Sittser and Gerald Lawson Sittser, 2004.
• Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart.
  • Wolfelt, Alan Wolfelt, 2004.
• Lament for a Son.
  • Nicholas Wolterstorff, 1987.

Grief Resources for Youth and Teens

• The Butterfly Field.
  • Alquin Gliane and Cedric Gliane, 2001.
• The Heart and the Bottle.
  • Oliver Jeffers, 2011.
• The Invisible String.
  • Patrice Karst and Joanne Lew-Vriethoff, 2018.
• My Father's Arms are a Boat. 
  • Stein Erik Lunde and Oyvind Torseter, 2012.
• Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children.
  • Brian Mellonie, 2009.
• Love Is Forever.
  • Casey Rislov and Rachael Balsaitis, 2013.