The unimaginable happens when your child dies. Life can feel physically and emotionally exhausting as you support your family while coping with your loss. Waves of grief and loneliness can make each day have its own obstacles. Talking with family and friends and other bereaved parents can provide solace for bereaved parents, and seeking professional help can be beneficial during this challenging time. On this page, we have gathered resources to remind you that you are not alone in this journey.
Events Representing Loss
July
National Bereaved Parents Month
Resources
Books for Adults
- A Grief Observed by C.S Lewis
- Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief by Martha Whitmore Hickman
- It's OK That You're Not Okay by Megan Devine
- Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child (Good Grief Series) by Gary Roe
- The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses including Health, Career, and Faith by John W. James and Russel Friedman
A Guided Grief Journal
How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed
Warm summer sun,
Shine kindly here,
Warm southern wind,
Blow softly here.
Green sod above,
Lie light, lie light.
Good night, dear heart,
Good night, good night.
Warm Summer Sun by Mark Twain adapted from Robert Richardson's poem "Annette." This poem is re-written by a bereaved father, as a epitaph for his daughter.
