Resources
Everything worth your time on the question: What are you carrying, and what does it need?
Six things on this subject: one TAIU exercise, three things to read and two free services and courses. Practical support sits first, before anything written to be interesting. If you want to talk to somebody who does this every day, this is the first place to look.
This page is for going further on your own. If you would rather work the question out with somebody asking, that is the conversation.
Grief: talk it throughLEARN · SUPPORT
Cruse Bereavement Support
If you want to talk to somebody who does this every day, this is the first place to look.
Free bereavement support in the UK, by phone and online, including support for sudden loss and for children.
READ · GUIDE
Marie Curie
Steady, practical and written for people who are currently managing a great deal at once.
Practical guidance on the weeks after a death, including the admin nobody warns you about.
LEARN · 24 HOURS
Samaritans
Here because some of these subjects reach further than a written exercise should.
Free, confidential, any time, whether or not you are in crisis.
TRY · 8 MIN
TAIU
Writing space. Nothing here is scored and nothing has to be finished.
Writing space for grief. No scoring, no progress, nothing to finish.
READ · BOOK
Dennis Klass, Phyllis Silverman and Steven Nickman
The collection that replaced the idea of letting go with the idea of an enduring relationship that changes form. It removes the pressure to reach closure.
READ · RESEARCH
Margaret Stroebe and Henk Schut
Describes grief as oscillation between facing the loss and getting on with life, rather than as a sequence of stages. It is the reason this session never asks anybody where they are up to.
What helped you?
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