Love & Loss – Resources for Grieving Hearts

Compiled by Joanna Barrett, LMHC

Books

Memoir/Guidance

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand by Megan Devine

Blog (Book and Podcast, too!)

• What’s Your Grief? by Eleanor Haley and Litsa Williams

Science

• The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss by Mary-Francis O’Connor

Poetry

• Prayers of Honoring Grief by Pixie Lighthorse
• Loss: Poems to Better Weather the Many Waves of Grief by Donna Ashworth
• Mourning Sky Series by Liz Newman (“I Look to the Mourning Sky: A Book of Poems and Writing Prompts for the Grieving Heart” and “I Look to the Gentle Rain: A Book of Poems and Writing Prompts for the Aching Heart”)

---

Podcasts & Videos

• PODCAST – Terrible, Thanks for Asking
• PODCAST – All There Is with Anderson Cooper
• PODCASTS – The Sunday Mourning Podcast and New Day with Claire Bidwell Smith
• VIDEO – Andrew Huberman’s Healing From Grief
• VIDEO – Getting Real with Gloria Locurto: Honoring a Pet’s Legacy after Pet Loss with Joanna Barrett

---

Experiential

Join a community that understands

• Mirabai Starr’s Holy Lamet Community Journey
• Jenn Cormier’s Walk Through Greif with Grace Group Immersion Program
• David Kessler’s Tender Hearts Grief Support Community
• Parmenter Foundation
• Barri Grant’s Support Groups through The Memory Circle

Nurture your mind-body connection

• Paul Denniston’s Grief Yoga
• Mindfulness & Grief: Guided Meditations to Calm Your Mind and Restore Your Spirit by Heather Stang

Pet loss support

• Kelly Drescher Johnson’s Veterinary Chaplaincy

Journal and write it out

• Megan Devine’s Writing Your Grief courses
• From Grief to Peace: A Guided Journal for Navigating Loss with Compassion and Mindfulness by Heather Stang

Create rituals

• The Wild Edge of Sorry: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller
• Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change by Day Schildkret

---

www.joannabarrett.com