Videos
Comforting Closure with Traci Arieli
A collection of videos on End of Life Care and Bereavement.
Podcasts
Death, Grief & Other Sh*t We Don't Discuss
After losing his mother to pancreatic cancer, iHeartMedia host Kyle McMahon created this podcast and features experts discussing grieving, loss, spiritualism, the afterlife, death rituals, and advance care planning to help those dealing with loss.
The Rainbow Bridge Connection
This podcast is for anyone who has ever lost a companion animal or is looking for an animal-based community. This podcast discusses the personal experiences of the host and listeners’ experience, as well as the perspectives from animal-related causes, businesses, and non-profits.
Support
Tender Hearts
Tender Hearts is a place where you can come to be supported in your grief. You can visit when you need to and leave feeling heard, understood, and hopeful.
Help Texts
Help Texts is a discreet, easy way to receive expert support straight to your phone.
Free Support Groups - Empowered Endings
The goal of our groups is to community and support healing for those who have lost a loved one through the Medical Aid and Dying, or MAiD, process and for those coping with loss.
Reserved Ground
Creating sacred space for connection, honoring the hidden grief and untold stories we carry in our bodies through ritual, storytelling and community. Founded by Krista Messam.
Books
Morning Leaves
Morning Leaves is a book of poetry inspired by the loss of author Laing Rikkers’s sister. The writing and the artwork encourage us to connect more deeply to nature, one another, and ourselves.
Grief Reimagined; 50 strategies to build resilience by Christine Kortbein and Catherine Tyink
This full-color book offers methods of working with grief – not theoretical but practical from people dealing with it. The book is not about ‘feeling better’ per se but about expressing sadness in ways that honor our life experiences and the people, beings, and times we lose yet keep in our hearts. This book is essential for any of us experiencing grief, which is everyone at some point.
The Hospice Doctor’s Widow by Jennifer A. O’Brien
An insightful blend of art and compassion, patience and endearing honesty, this book comprises Jen’s digital art journal, chronicling this time in their marriage. What began as a visceral, self-care compulsion within days of diagnosis became notes, collages, and images revealing the raw, luminescent reflections of a caregiver-turned-widow.
An Original Grief Guide; Self-care for lost souls surviving life after death by Rachel Marie Rabatin
“An Original Grief Guide” aims to be a string of lights along a dark and lonely path. Each chapter will guide you through with honest and vulnerable accounts of someone who walked their dark path — and knows exactly how much it hurts.
Hints for Grieflings by Kim Shute
This is more than a sympathy card, it will last long after the services are over. Follow the story of this sweet little griefling.
Jewish Insights on Death and Mourning Paperback by Jack Riemer
As Jack Riemer demonstrates in this collection of Jewish resources for mourning and healing, the Jewish tradition has much to offer those who seek its help in time of need. Reflections on these and other issues related to death and dying make this an indispensable resource for coping with some of life’s most difficult and sacred moments.