Here are some resources that you might find useful. Books, podcasts, websites and resource sheets that will hopefully shine a light on some of what you may be experiencing in your grief. Please contact Ann or Sonja at Boulger for more information about these or other resources.
We have many books that are available for sale or to borrow from us at Boulger Funeral Home, as well.
The following are websites we recommend:
Alan Wolfelt – Home – Center for Loss & Life Transition
Megan Devine Refuge in Grief: Grief Support That Doesn’t Suck – Megan Devine
What’s your Grief – A Grief Website for the Rest of Us
After a Death, the Holidays are a Secondary Loss
Websites pertaining to pregnancy loss and infant loss:
Websites pertaining to grieving a death by suicide:
Eric’s House – a community for healing after addiction, suicide or sudden loss. www.ericshouse.org
https://www.theleftoverpieces.com/
https://enoughwiththestigma.org/
The following are books that can be read a bit at a time because during early grief it is difficult to concentrate on longer passages.
Grief One Day at A Time by Alan Wolfelt
Permission to Mourn: A New Way to Do Grief by Tom Zuba
Healing After Loss by Martha Whitmore
For those who are looking for longer reads:
It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand by Megan Devine
FatherLoss by Neil Chethik (How Sons of All Ages Come to Terms with the Deaths of Their Dads)
Some Podcasts We Recommend:
A conversation between Anderson Cooper and Francis Weller:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/
Riding the Waves of Grief with Julie Cluff is a nice podcast that reminds us that grief is with us always, even as the intensity may lessen with attention and time. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/
Suicide loss: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/
It’s Time to Retire the Stages of Grief with Megan Devine: https://podcasts.apple.com/
A podcast about teens from the Dougy Center: https://podcasts.apple.com/
An episode about Not Pathologizing Grief with Dr. Donna Schuurman and the Dougy Center: https://podcasts.apple.com/
Printable/readable resources:
Alan Wolfelt’s Grief and Mourning Basics: https://www.centerforloss.com/
Grief Feelings: https://www.centerforloss.com/
What the Newly Bereaved Should Know: https://whatsyourgrief.com/
Guilt and Grief: https://whatsyourgrief.com/