resources
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Call or text 988. Lifeline Chat and Text connects you with caring crisis counselors for emotional support. It is free and confidential and available 24/7/365.
The Dougy Center
The Dougy Center offers grief support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults, and their families can share their experiences before and after a death. They provide support and training locally, nationally, and internationally to individuals and organizations seeking to assist children who are grieving.
Reimagine
Reimagining loss, adversity, and mortality and channeling life’s challenges into meaning and growth.
Grief Support for Suicide Loss
Offers grief support for survivors of suicide loss.
Willow House
Willow House provides grief support and education for youth, families, schools, and other communities grieving the death of a parent, sibling, or child.
INELDA
International End-of-Life Doula Association’s doula directory offers a list of INELDA-certified doulas who are trained to support the dying and their loved ones before, during, and after death.
Center for Loss & Life Transition
Led by death educator and grief counselor Dr. Alan Wolfelt, this organization is dedicated to helping people who are grieving and those who care for them by offering trainings and resources centered around grief, loss, and transitions.
Joyful Death Institute
Helping individuals and families orient towards a joyful, dignified, and peaceful death through offering preparation and planning resources and services, healing services, as well as meditation and prayer guidance and support.
Warm Lines
A Warm Line is a peer-run phone line that offers callers emotional support and is staffed by volunteers who have shared lived experiences.
California’s Mental Health Association Warm Line: Call or Text 855-600-WARM (9276) to speak with a counselor 24/7, or use the Chat feature through the website.
NAMI National Warm Line Directory: A nationwide directory of peer-run Warm Lines.
Videos on Grief
It’s Okay That You’re Not OK: A new model of Grief with Megan Devine
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: The Sacred Work of Grief with Francis Weller
EndWell Project: End Well is a nonprofit dedicated to the belief that all people should experience the end of life in a way that matches their values and goals.
Books on Grief
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the meaning of grief through the five stages of loss, by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief, by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore
The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise, by MartÍn Prechtel
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief, by Francis Weller
Finding Meaning: The sixth stage of grief Workbook, by David Kessler
Yoga & Movement for Grief
Yoga Journal’s Yoga for Grief Sequence
Podcasts on Grief & Loss