Here are some resources for your grief journey.
Books about Living with Grief & Sorrow
Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community by Camille Sapara Barton - Practical tools for holding space for the grief of BIPOC and queer people in particular.
Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Joanne Cacciatore - A map of grief with an emphasis on loss of a child.
The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings are Trying to Tell You by Karla McLaren - Learn how to meet strong emotions as valuable sources of knowledge and power.
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski - While not about grief, this book is valuable for understanding the nervous system and how to care for yours during the long slog of grief.
The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski. - An AIDS hospice worker shares five practical ways to reorient oneself in relationship to our life.
Drawing on Grief: Exploring Loss Through Creativity by Kate Sutton - A small illustrated guide to grief with tiny drawing activities to soothe and connect with oneself.
Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow by Breesia Wade - Learn how our personal grief can connect us to the larger shared grief of racism and injustice.
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller and Michael Lerner - Grief is meant to be honored in community, not alone. Learn how to draw on your intuitive ritual wisdom and ancestors to integrate your grief.
Memoirs about Grief
The Dead are Gods by Eirinie Carson - This love letter to a dead friend is as obsessive, beautiful, specific, and universal as every friendship torn apart by death.
Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley - A 30-something woman grieves her stolen belongings and her dearest literary compadre.
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - An accomplished woman grapples with the sudden death of her longtime literary partner and husband.
Fi: A Memoir by Alexandra Fuller - A mother lives into the searing grief of suddenly losing her teenage son to an undiagnosed health condition.
Podcasts about Grief
Terrible, Thanks for Asking - Host Nora McInerny knows her way through the halls of grief. Each episode she talks with someone who has experienced loss, change, and despair—and come through it.
All There Is with Anderson Cooper - News reporter Anderson Cooper turns the mic on himself as he sorts through the death of his mother Gloria Vanderbilt, his brother’s ungrieved suicide, and family memorabilia.
Climate Grief Resources
The Age of Loneliness: Essays by Laura Marris - These beautiful essays invite ways to deepen relationship with the natural world by accepting extinction and loss as part of loving the world.
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience & Creative Power by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone - Ecophilosopher Joanna Macy introduces the Work that Reconnects which strengthens one’s capacity to to face disturbing information and respond with action and resilience.
Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown - Easy-to-use methods for group work developed by ecophilosopher Joanna Macy that profoundly affect peoples’ outlook and ability to act in the world.
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg - Brief informational essays and commentary by climate scientists and activists from around the world provide clear information and therefore hope.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Wisdom of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer - Indigenous scientist and mother reminds us of our necessary relationship with plants.
Emergence Magazine - a website, podcast, and print publication exploring the connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality.
These are my personal recommendations of resources that helped me meet my own grief and that of others.
Is your favorite missing? Send me your recommendations and why..