Sculpture by Albert Gyorgy
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It was on a Tuesday that my husband died, so in his memory, I am dedicating occasional Tuesdays throughout the month to all things grief, including book reviews, links to recommended readings and podcasts, guest posts, and grief-related topics.
If you have read a book or an article that you’d like to recommend to other readers, or if you want to share other grief-related material, please leave a comment on this page or send me an email: lynn.haraldson@gmail.com.
(To read my past posts regarding grief, scroll down to the categories bar on the right and select Grief.)
Grief Talk Tuesday Posts
- The Corner
- “Grief Light”
- Grieving the Living
- Treat My Urn Like the Stanley Cup
- What to Keep, What to Give Away
- A Week of Grief (but not in a bad way)
- Grief on TV. Do They Get It Right?
- Grieving the Loss of “Things”
- Saying Goodbye to Our Four-Legged Friends
- Operating Instructions
- Can You Grieve Someone You Never Met?
- “Merry” Christmas?
- Self-Kindness
- Grief Really Shouldn’t End. Here’s Why
- Welcome to Grief Talk
Books
- The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Grief by Hope Edelman
- The Modern Loss Handbook by Rebecca Soffer
- The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change by Pauline Boss
- It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand by Megan Devine
- How to Carry What Can’t Be Fixed: A Journal for Grief by Megan Devine
- Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief by Claire Bidwell Smith
- Widow-ish by Melissa Gould
- The Long Goodbye: A Memoir by Meghan O’Rourke
- Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort by Shelby Forsythia
- Future Widow by Jenny Lisk
- Books for children by Elke Thompson
Articles & Essays on Grief
- Sometimes Ted Lasso Isn’t Enough by Lynn Haraldson, Brevity Blog, April 2022
- Grief and A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) by Mark Liebenow
- Accommodation to Unnatural Death by Edward Rynearson, MD, Violent Death Bereavement Society
- My Sister Passes Me on a Bench at the Zoo by Misty Urban, from River Teeth, February 17, 2020
- Long Should Grief Last? from Modern Loss, March 2022
- Why Does Mourning Have an Expiration Date? from Bitch Media, April 2020
- What if There’s No Such Thing as Closure? from the New York Times, December 2021
- How Your Brain Copes with Grief, and Why it Takes Time to Heal from NPR, December 2021
- Why We Need Vocabulary to Describe the Ending of the Grief that Comes After Loss from Lit Hub, December 2021
- Can we ever truly know the depth & breadth of the grief experience? from Shapes of Grief, Autumn 2021
- The Physics of Death (and What Happens to Your Energy When You Die) from Futurism.com
- Half-Life by Lisa Ellison
- Clasping Hands by Michael Todd Cohen, from Barren Magazine
- Things to do in the Belly of Despair by Kerry Herlihy from Beautiful Things, May 16, 2022
- What We Keep in Loss: William Blake’s Stirring Letter to a Bereaved Father, The Marginalia
- How We Grieve: Meghan O’Rourke on the Messiness of Mourning and Learning to Live with Loss, The Marginalia
Meditations & Talks on Grief, Self-Compassion
- Journeys Through Grief, with Emily Silva Hockstra and Lynn Haraldson
- Navigating Loss Without Closure, On Being with Krista Tippet
- Grieving and Timeless Love, Tara Brach
- Self-Kindness Inside Grief, Megan Devine
- Speaking Grief, Megan Devine
- Grief is Good, Joe Primo
Websites & Social Media
- Refuge in Grief
- Violent Death Bereavement Society
- Survivors of Violent Loss Network
- What’s Your Grief?
- Widower’s Grief
- A Season of Snowflakes & Sympathy, from the blog A Librarian Looks at Life
- The Good Grief Space on Instagram
- Living with Grief on Instagram
- The Grief Circle on Instagram
- Happy Grieving on Instagram
- The Hungover Widow
- Claire Bidwell Smith
- The Full Catastrophe Blog by Casey Mulligan Walsh
- Memoir and Writing on Mother Loss by Carmel Breathnach
- Modern Loss
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