It’s hard to know where to start when you’ve just lost someone.
It’s also hard to eat, sleep, and shower. While we can’t run a bath for you or get you a nice home-cooked meal, here’s a list of resources, from podcasts to books, websites, and even tv shows that you might find helpful.
Looking for something specific that you don’t see here?
Get in touch by sending an email to hello@ourlossgrief.ca with your request and we’ll be happy to help you find what you’re looking for.
Websites
You don’t have to grieve alone. What’s Your Grief? is a place for grief articles, courses, creativity, sharing, community & more.
Candid conversation about grief. Beginners welcome.
Books, videos, groups, Facebook communities and more…
Grief Stories passionately believes sharing stories and insights fosters connection, helping people to cope with grief.
“Grief support that doesn’t suck” - resources for grievers, and people supporting someone in grief. Books, podcasts and more…
Podcasts
A weekly interview podcast where media personalities share stories about loved ones.
All There Is with Anderson Cooper
A series of emotional and moving conversations about the people we lose, the things they leave behind, and how to live on - with loss, with laughter, and with love.
A show by author Nora McInerny that lets real people get real honest about how they’re really doing. It’s sometimes sad, sometimes funny, and almost always both.
One digestible topic at a time, Haley and Williams distill topics ranging from grief theory to coping. Grievers and grief professionals alike will find their approach practical, relatable, informative and engaging. Grief is sad and confusing, but your grief support doesn't have to be.
A grief support group in a podcast, it’s a space where you’ll feel understood, connected to others and even have the odd ‘aha!’ moment where everything you’re experiencing starts to make more sense. Most importantly, you’ll feel less alone.
Books
A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning.
Anxiety The Missing Stage of Grief
With concrete tools and coping strategies for panic attacks, getting a handle on anxious thoughts, and more, Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief bridges these two emotions in a way that is deeply empathetic and eminently practical.
It’s OK That You’re Not OK is a book for grieving people, those who love them, and all those seeking to love themselves—and each other—better.
Welcome to the Grief Club is a book of solace, connection, hope, and reassurance. It addresses with empathy and honesty the aspects of grief that so many of us experience but that aren’t widely discussed: the variety and volatility of emotions—sadness, anger, guilt, joy; the physical symptoms of grief; and how grief isn’t linear, but it does change and soften over time.
Modern Loss: Candid Conversation about Grief
In this wise and often funny book, Soffer and Birkner, along with more than forty contributors, share their provocative stories on themes including sex and intimacy after loss, technology, and the secrets we harbour and uncover.
Love Notes to Grievers: Tending to Grief After Loss
Everyone needs support, whether in initial grief, years later, somewhere in the middle, or decades beyond. Love Notes to Grievers helps readers grieve, without the confines of other people’s timelines and expectations.
Grief is Love: Living with Loss
In Grief is Love, author Marisa Renee Lee reveals that healing does not mean moving on after losing a loved one--healing means learning to acknowledge and create space for your grief.
A groundbreaking exploration of grief and racial trauma through the eyes of a Black end-of-life caregiver, Breeshia Wade.
Grief Ally is the answer we’re all looking for when someone dies and we’re left asking “What do I do?” and “How do I help?”
Memorials
Let Your Love Grow® is Canada’s only scientifically proven environmental option for ashes. Designed to neutralize ashes, and nourish new life. For a legacy that grows on.
Welkin has designed beautiful handcrafted vase urns that you’ll be proud to display in your home. They currently offer two sizes, each in two colors, and strive to make the tough times a little easier through their fast shipping, flexible returns and unlimited warranty.
