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.)
Weekly Grief Talk Tuesday Posts
- May 10, 2022: Treat My Urn Like the Stanley Cup
- April 27, 2022: What to Keep, What to Give Away
- April 14, 2022: A Week of Grief (but not in a bad way)
- March 25, 2022: Grief on TV. Do They Get It Right?
- February 1, 2022: Grieving the Loss of “Things”
- January 18, 2022: Saying Goodbye to Our Four-Legged Friends
- January 4, 2022: Operating Instructions
- December 28, 2021: Can You Grieve Someone You Never Met?
- December 21, 2021: “Merry” Christmas?
- December 14, 2021: Self-Kindness
- December 7, 2021: Grief Really Shouldn’t End. Here’s Why
- November 30, 2021: Welcome to Grief Talk
Podcasts
Books
- The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Grief by Hope Edelman
- 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
- Widow-ish by Melissa Gould
- Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort by Shelby Forsythia
- Future Widow by Jenny Lisk
Articles & Essays on Grief
- Sometimes Ted Lasso Isn’t Enough by Lynn Haraldson, Brevity Blog, April 2022
- 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
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
Websites & Social Media
- Refuge in Grief
- 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
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