ARTICLES
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Mourning The Death Of A Spouse
Understanding the grief that arises when you experience the death of a spouse.
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Returning to Work After a Pregnancy Loss
Recognizing the impact of pregnancy loss, and how to navigate it in the workplace.
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Toolkit For People Who Have Been Impacted By A Suicide Loss
Navigating a death by suicide.
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Grieving An Aboration You Don't Regret
The complex emotions related to abortion loss.
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Hospice Palliative Care – Grief & Bereavement Support
Ontario-specific supports for grief and death.
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Traumatic Loss: Mental Health Consequences and Implications for Treatment and Prevention
Understanding the impacts of traumatic losses.
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Traumatic Grief
Navigating the response to a sudden, unexpected loss.
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Helping Children With Grief
Navigating grief in children.
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Nightingale Center for Grieving Children, Youth, and Families
Support for children and youth who are bereaved.
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Anticipatory Grief
The grief before a loss.
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Understanding Disenfranchised Grief
Mourning a loss that society doesn't acknowledge, validate, or support, leaving the bereaved feeling isolated and misunderstood because their grief isn't considered "legitimate."
ORGANIZATIONS
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Learning Through Loss
Victoria, British Columbia
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Lumara Society
Parksville, British Columbia
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Bereaved Families of Ontario
Ontario
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Good Grief
New Jersey
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Grief Matters
Canada
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Bereaved Families of Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
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Circle of Care
Toronto, Ontario
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Canadian Hospice and Palliative Care Association
Canada
BOOKS
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The Invisible String (Childlren's Book)
by Patrice Karst
This is noted as "the perfect tool" when it comes to coping with "separation anxiety, loss, and grief" for children. There's also a workbook you can pick use, too!
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Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss
by Sameet M. Kumar
Pick this up if you're looking for ways to deal with grief, particularly through the lens of spirituality.
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Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss"
by Hope Edelman
A "go-to classic" (weird phrasing) for women who need comfort, help and understanding after losing their mother.
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The Widowed Self: The Older Woman's Journey through Widowhood
by Deborah Kestin van den Hoonaard
This book is for senior women who have lost their partner.
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The Bereaved Parent
by Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
Harriet provides advice for bereaved parents. She provides knowledge from professionals who work with them, which include psychiatrists and religious counsellors.
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Can You Just Sit With Me?
by Natasha Smith
This book invites us into a reflection on what it means to grieve and how to cling to hope even in our darkest moments.
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When Your Spouse Loses A Parent
by Caroline Madden, Irene Rodway
This provides you with the skills you need to support your partner during this difficult time.
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
by Peter Handke
Exerpt from book description: Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life, which spanned the Nazi era, the war, and the postwar consumer economy, she struggled to maintain appearances, only to arrive at a terrible recognition: "I'm not human any more." Not long after, she killed herself with an overdose of sleeping pills.
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Crying In HMart
by Michelle Zauner
Exerpt from book description: An unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity in the wake of her loss.
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You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
by Sherman Alexie
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me is a powerful account of a complicated relationship, an unflinching and unforgettable remembrance.