Grief Talk

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It was on a Tuesday that my husband died, so in his memory, I am dedicating occasional Tuesdays 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

• Welcome to Grief Talk
• This is 40
• “Where were the adults?”
• The Giving Cactus
• Reminder: Hurt People Hurt People
• Grieving Celebrities
• Acknowledging the Dates (part 2)
• Grieving Our Bodies
• Acknowledging the Dates (part 1)
• At the Copa, Lolo Was so Much More than a Showgirl
• Grandma Grief
• 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

Books

• What’s Your Grief? Lists to Help You Through Any Loss by Eleanor Haley & Litsa Williams
• Grief is Love by Marisa Renee Lee
• The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Grief by Hope Edelman
• 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
• The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O’Connor
• The Modern Loss Handbook by Rebecca Soffer
• The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change by Pauline Boss
• 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
• Living with Loss: One Day at a Time by Rachel Kodanaz
• Future Widow by Jenny Lisk
• Books for children by Elke Thompson
• Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief by Martha Hickman
• Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter by E.B. Bartels
• The Oxidation of Grief: Reflections on Adult Sibling Loss by Maria Piantanida
• Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love by Anna Whiston-Donaldson (the loss of a child)

Articles & Essays

• Sometimes Ted Lasso Isn’t Enough by Lynn Haraldson, Brevity Blog, April 2022
• Lisa Marie Presley writes about grief following her son’s death August 2022
• Why a Family Cuttoff Can Produce Both Grief and Relief from Psychology Today, September 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
• The Half Life of Love by Megan Devine from Modern Loss

Grief in the Media/Documentaries

• Here & Now (WBUR): Grieving as a Lifelong Process (Hope Edelman interview)
• Speaking Grief from WPSU

Meditations & Talks

• 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
• National Grief Awareness Day (August 30)
• Grief.com
• empowerHER by Cara Belvin (support for children who’ve lost their mother)
• Harbor Light Coaching (grief counseling)

Podcasts

• Good Mourning Podcast
• Here After with Megan Devine
• All There Is with Anderson Cooper
• The Grief Gang
• A Good Cry
• Processing
• Widowed Parent
• The Art of Dying Well
• Sunday Mourning (5 episodes)

Writing About Grief

• Sunday Grief Writing Sessions with Diane Zinna.
• Hedgebrook Grief & Healing Series
• Writing Your Grief with Megan Devine

Resources for Those Who Support Grieving Loved Ones

• Heartspoken: How to Write Notes that Connect, Comfort, Encourage, and Inspire by Elizabeth Cottrell