Resources & Downloads

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Websites

Association for Death Education and Counselling (ADEC)
The Thanatology Association*

The Foundation offers FREE grief resources to help you strengthen relationships with families and support your community.

Grieving Alone & Together: Responding to the Loss of Your Loved One During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Click Here to Order

Written by Sara Murphy, Ph.D., CT, with a forward by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D., the 12-page booklet, available in English and Spanish, offers guidance to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one during the pandemic or who would like to learn how they can support those who have. An e-book is available for you to share on your website and social media.

Youth & Funerals: Understanding the important role funerals and memorialization play in the lives of youth – Click Here to Order

The 12-page booklet, available in English and Spanish, debunks the common myths that prevent youth from attending or participating in funerals, offers age-appropriate language and advice on discussing death and funerals with youth, and gives suggestions for youth preparedness, empowerment and involvement in memorialization.  An e-book and complementing video featuring Good Grief CEO, Joe Primo, are also available for you to share on your website and social media.

Books

Loosing Emily

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Losing Emily: A Journey Through Stillbirth To Finding Peace And Embracing New Hope
By: Tammy Anderson

A powerful and moving must read story based on the author’s own heartfelt, painful journey of surviving the stillbirth of her daughter Emily at 37.5 weeks of pregnancy. Losing Emily reaches out to help grieving parents as they embark on their journey of healing by offering words of comfort and peace, a much needed connection to someone who has been there and understands the struggle and true depth of the unimaginable pain of losing a baby. Whether your loss be from a miscarriage, stillbirth or early infant death; there is no greater heartbreak than losing your much loved and wanted child. Through Emily’s tragic death, her legacy lives on by sharing a message of new hope to help bereaved parents as they move through the difficult process of healing while finding new strength and courage to carry on without your child.

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Carrying On
By: Darlene B. Viggiano, Ph.D. (MFT)

Pregnancy loss deals largely with grief over what was expected rather than offering memories of a life fully lived. It therefore requires a different processing of emotions, though the emotions themselves may be similar to those for other forms of bereavement.

Carrying On – Facilitative Power Point

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The Group – Seven Widowed Fathers Reimagine Life
By: Donald L. Rosenstein &‎ Justin M. Yopp

The Group: Seven Widowed Fathers Reimagine Life chronicles the challenges and triumphs of seven men whose wives died from cancer and were left to raise their young children entirely on their own.

Widowed Parent – For nearly a decade, our team has been dedicated to understanding the unique challenges of widowed parents and have learned a fair bit that we think might be helpful to you. For resources, support and research, please visit our website at www.widowedparent.org