RECOMMENDED BOOKS 


  • “A Year to Live” By: Stephen Levine
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  • “Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience” by Brené Brown
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  • “Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief” by Pauline Boss PhD


  • “It’s OK That You’re Not OK” by Megan Devine


  • “Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome.” by Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner 


  • “Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy” by Sheryl Sandberg , Adam Grant


  • “Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community” by Camille Sapara Barton


  • “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture” by Gabor Maté MD, Daniel Maté


  • “The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself” by Michael A. Singer


  • “Women's Wisdom from the Heart of Africa” By: Sobonfu Somé


  • “There Is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love” by Emily McDowell and Kelsey Crowe


  • “On Grief & Grieving” Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. & David Kessler


  • “The Smell Of Rain On Dust” Grief and Praise by Martin Prechtel


  • “The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying” by Sogyal Rinpoche


  • “Transforming Somatic Grief” Degriefing Counseling & Education by Lyn Prashant, PH.D. FT. Somatic Thanatology


  • “Grief and Loss” Theories and Skills for the Helping Professions- 2nd edition by Katherine Walsh


  • “Language of Emotions” What your feelings are trying to tell you by Karla McLaren 


  • “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” by Cheryl Strayed


  • “The Power to Heal Yourself: How to Use the Inner Bonding® Process for Greater Well-Being” by Dr. Margaret Paul

RECOMMENDED EXPERIENCES/EVENTS 


 
  • Death Dialogue- Conversations I Wish I Had creates the space to ask the question: If given the chance to pick up the phone and talk to someone who has died, what would you say? https://www.deathdialogue.com/ 
 
  • You’re Going To Die: Poetry, Prose, and Everything Goes- Open mic and live shows bringing people creatively into the conversation of death & dying, while helping to inspire & empower them out of the context of unabashedly confronting loss & mortality. http://www.yg2d.com/events/ 
 
  • ENDWELL Project- End Well is a first of its kind gathering of design, tech, health care and activist communities with the goal of generating human-centered, interdisciplinary innovation for the end of life experience. December 2018 https://www.endwellproject.org/ 
   
  • All kinds of Grief Resources- This site is filled with a ton of resources for grief and loss. The two links that are most helpful for this time period and season are the following.  Public Grief   and   Grief & Holidays and What’s Your Grief
     
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