Grief Resources for Families

A book that covers a lot of topics about losing an infant from the psychological aspects.

This book is written from personal experience by a psychologist who speaks about thoughts, feelings, and struggles that come after losing a pregnancy or baby.

This book reveals how grief can affect people. She shares stories of her own experiences and what she has been exposed to over decades of supporting families who are grieving.

Children teach other children about their grieving process and stories of losing a loved one.

Video Duration: approx. 15 min

This book touches on how to process all of the emotions, navigate changes, handle stress, deal with mental health and loneliness, and how to honor your child after losing them.

Loss, grief, and trauma that marginalized children face and how it affects personal learning and success.

This book talks about miscarriages and the author’s experiences with them.

Children often have lots of questions and concerns about death, this book helps to teach children what they need to know.

Children ages 4 through 12 talk about what their grieving process was like and what helped them.

Video Duration: 22 min

This book discusses how children react to grief differently. It deep dives into different reactions.

This book talks about how grief affects us all. It talks about stories of grieving but surviving.

This book is full of real-life stories from grieving dads who were interviewed. They share dark moments and honest feelings about their experiences.

A book written to specifically help children with autism or other special needs deal with and process grief and what it’s like when someone dies.

A book that explores emotions through a girl who describes her heart as full of joy, fear, love, and more, promoting emotional awareness.

This book discusses how grieving is okay. The author talks about the unspoken truths of loss and offers advice that debunks the culturally prescribed goal of returning to “normal.”

A children’s book explaining death and grief.

Explains “trauma-informed” early childhood education and explains activities to help children process and heal from a plethora of stressful events.

A comforting book helping people deal with loss.

This is a book written from the point of view of a child who lost a sibling. It walks through their emotions as well as their families.

This book talks about the impact a child’s death can have on families.

A story to help children understand pregnancy loss.

This book was written in a way that’s appropriate for children ages 2-3. It assures children that their emotions are normal and that they can still love the person who died and that they will always love them.

A children’s book explaining sibling loss that emphasizes focusing on happy memories.

This book offers comfort and encouragement after losing a child. Written from personal experience, this book includes tips, resources, what didn’t help, and how they grieved their children.

This gentle story explores how grief is filled with all the love we have for someone who was important in our lives. To open up the conversation on difficult feelings, the book also includes a short guide for adults with tips on supporting children after a bereavement.

Guides teachers through children’s experiences with different types of grief and loss. It lays out strategies for talking about grief and different activities to help support those who are grieving.

This book explores themes of friendship, self-discovery, empowerment, love, independence, and the social pressures of high school. 

This book is written from a unique point of view which allows children to imagine who they lost. There is a guide towards the back of the book that includes ways for them to create their own memory box.

Dr. Sunita Osborn addresses topics that aren’t as widely discussed following a miscarriage with honesty and fearless humor.

This book is written by a grief counselor and psychotherapist who offers support and guidance from her journey of child loss as well as what she had learned from others who have experienced the death of a child. 

This book is written by a father who lost his young daughter. He talks about his spiritual journey and how he came to realize that death is not just the end, but also a new beginning.

Introduces parents and clinicians to trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy for children and adolescents who struggle with some sort of stress that occurs in their life, one major component being grief. It teaches different coping skills and ways to address trauma experiences.

A book that answers some questions children often ask when someone dies.

This book provides answers to questions children have about death and dying.

This book walks children through the bereavement process in a simple, concrete, and developmentally appropriate way. Through the lens of mindfulness, children will learn how to say goodbye, make space for any emotions that arise, and work through their grief. 

This bilingual book helps children cope with the loss of a family member. Using simple words and phrases in English and Spanish children, parents, grandparents, teachers, counselors etc. can help relieve the feeling of loss, emptiness and despair when children have to go through the grieving process.

Loss of a family member can be a very confusing and painful experience for a child. In this story, Valentina learns that it’s okay to be sad, to cry, and to miss the person who’s passed away. With the help of her elephant friend, Valentina is able to come to understand that even though her Grandma is out of sight, she will always be in her heart and memories.

This book uses animals characters to explore the emotions and facts around death, with questions such as Is it OK to talk about dying? What happens when someone dies? Can I shout and cry and hide away? and How can I stop feeling sad? This book helps parents and carers to find the words to explain death and dying to young children.

Structured sensory interventions that help grieving and traumatized children.

A book for grieving moms from another grieving mom’s perspective. Comforting words of advice to help other moms.

This book offers ways to honor those who children have lost. It incorporates the past, present, and future of life with that lost loved one.

This article talks about grief in children. They discuss how children will react differently depending on their age and developmental stage.

This article discusses pregnancy loss and how it affects women in both the short and long term. They talk about advice for providers and ways to help women cope.

This article provides parents with guidance on how to support a grieving child. It offers suggestions on how to help children better understand and addresses misinformation, misinterpretations, and misconceptions.

You can’t protect your kids from the pain of loss, but you can help build healthy coping skills.

Marc Blumberg, Ph.D., talks about helping your child cope with loss. He touches on common myths, stages of children’s grief, developmental expression of grief and age-appropriate helping, how to talk to your grieving child, and other suggestions.

Quenby Gallahan is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and she speaks about how to support children who are grieving. Her video is geared toward clinicians and mentors who work with children.

Dr. Cristi Bundukamara is a psychiatric nurse practitioner and she talks about how to continue your life after losing a child. She speaks from facts and science as well as personal experience since she lost 3 of her children.

Doctor and author Mary Sullivan talks about children dealing with grief and the coloring book she created to help them.

Cassandra Blomberg has a passion for supporting children and families from pregnancy through early childhood. In this video, she talks about suffering after pregnancy loss.

If you have recently experienced the end of a caring relationship, you likely are experiencing grief. This program can help you understand what you may be feeling and why. 

This web resource discusses dealing with feelings, grieving the loss, coping as a couple, and thoughts about trying again.

This web resource talks about feelings, discussing death, and helping children cope from the day to years later.

This web resource discusses many ways to help kids through grief and common things that may arise. Also, a list of signs that a child may be seriously struggling with grief.

A reassuring message that reaffirms that children can be resilient, even in the face of loss. 

This web resource explains a true story about a child experiencing pet loss. There are also ways to explain death as well as ways to be there for your child.

This web resource explains healthy grieving strategies and how to support children.

This is a general guide to help you understand how to approach the subject of death with children of different ages. When explaining death, it is important to take into account a child’s capacity to understand the concept.