“Surviving grief is an experiment. An experiment you were thrown into against your will, but an experiment all the same. There is nothing to do but to keep exploring the road ahead, carrying your love, and your loss, with you. May joy, meaning, and hope arrive to join you along the way.” ~ Megan Devine

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Grief support is highly personal. What speaks to you might differ from others. I offer this list as a jumping off point to explore what might fit for you.

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Local resources:  

• Duke Hospice Bereavement Services: individual counseling, grief support groups, children’s programs

• Triangle SOS: resources and support groups for those experiencing loss from suicide

• Growing Thru Grief: weekly community-based grief support group in Durham

• Grief Oasis: weekly community-based grief support group in Chapel Hill

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Books:

• It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok, Megan Devine

• How to Carry What Can’t Be Fixed, Megan Devine

• Finding Meaning, David Kessler

• The Grieving Brain, Mary-Frances O’Connor

• When Life Hits Hard, Russ Harris

• The Myth of Closure, Pauline Boss

• Motherless Daughters, Hope Edelman

• Bearing the Unbearable, Joanne Cacciatore

• Widow to Widow, Genevieve Davis Ginsburg

• True Refuge, Tara Brach

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Sites:

• What’s Your Grief

• Grief.com

• Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families

• Center for Prolonged Grief

• Heal Grief

• OptionB

 

Podcasts:

• Healing, with David Kessler

• All There Is, with Anderson Cooper

• Everything Happens, with Kate Bowler