Resources for the Journey Ahead in Grief and Loss
NOTE: There is an immense, endless amount helpful, supportive, valuable resources out there to encourage you as you travel through grief and loss and how to navigate this journey. There are tons of a books, websites, podcasts, support groups, communities on social media and local groups in your community among others. I have simply provided the handful I have come across since I have been on my own journey. The key is to seek out, ask the questions, and find what works for you that will equipped and empowered you to travel your own journey and thrive in life.
- Griefshare.org
https://www.griefshare.org
- Through a Season of Grief: Devotions for Your Journey from Mourning to Joy
- Grieving with Hope: Finding Comfort as You Journey through Loss
- Hot Young Widows Club
- Nora McInerny • TEDWomen
- It’s Okay to Laugh: (Crying Is Cool Too)
- One Fit Widow – Michelle Steinke-Baumgard
- Healthy Healing: A Guide to Working Out Grief Using the Power of
Exercise and Endorphins
- The Widow Badass Blog
- Hope Gathering
- It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength
When Disappointments Leave You Shattered
By: Lysa Terkeurst
- Grieve with Ease
https://grievewithease.com
- Get Out Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
By: Jennie Allen
- Wings for Widows
https://www.wingsforwidows.org
- The Compassionate Friends
- Widow Empowerment Trust
- Soaring Spirits International
Resources for Solo/ Single parenting:
- The life of a Single mom
https://thelifeofasinglemom.com/national-resource-guide-new
- The Single Parent Advocate
- The Single Parent Support Network
- The Single Parent Project
https://www.singleparentproject.org
- Focus on the Family
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/resources-single-parenting
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/a-single-parents-path-to-community
- Positive Parenting as a Single Parent
- Parents Helping Parents
https://parentshelpingparents.org/single-parents
- E.S.T.H.E.R.
https://esthersmo.com/2024/12/14/programs-for-single-mothers
- Mental Health America
- Single Parent Provision
https://www.singleparentprovision.org
- Single Parent Alliance & Resource Center
- Bunker
https://www.buckner.org/family-pathways
- Young United Parents
https://www.youngunitedparents.org/parenting/strategies-and-resources-for-single-parents
- Hope for Single Moms
- Single Mom Society
- Single Parent Connection
https://www.singleparentconnection.org
- Solo Parent
- Single Parent Wellbeing
- Wings for Widows
https://www.wingsforwidows.org/popular-articles/adjusting-to-being-a-single-parent
- My farewelling
https://www.myfarewelling.com/article/navigating-the-grieving-process-as-a-single-parent
21. Centering.org
22. Risen Motherhood
23. Widows Empowerment Trust
https://widowsempowerment.com/news-%26-blog/f/becoming-a-single-parent
24. Family Rising.org
https://wearefamiliesrising.org/resource/helping-children-recover-from-grief
Recommended Readings:
1) The Bible (Always!!!)
2.) the Scriptures for the Course
3.) All books in the FindIng Grace Through Grief series
Parts 1 – 3: Currently on Amazon
Parts 4 & 5: Coming Soon
Additional/Suggested Reading:
1.) Now I See… A Lifetime of Learned Truths along my Journey
Through LIfe
2.) GriefShare: Through A Season of Grief…. 365
Devotions for Your Journey from Mourning to Joy
3.) Joni Eareckson Tada: Diamonds in the Dust
4.) Lysa Terkeurst It’s NOt Suppose To Be this Way
5.) Rick Warren – ‘A Purpose Driven Life’
6.) Marshawn Evans Daniels 100 Days of Believing Bigger
7.) Jenny Allen:
Get out of your Head… Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
Get out of Your Head… UnTangle Your Emotions
8.) Tauren Wells: Joy Bomb…. Unleash Jesus’s Explosive Joy for a
Extraordinary Life