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Books
General Books for Grief and Loss
When a painful loss or life-shattering event upends your world, here is the first thing to know: there is nothing wrong with grief. “Grief is simply love in its most wild and painful form,” says Megan Devine. “It is a natural and sane response to loss.” A book for grieving people, those who love them, and all those seeking to love themselves—and each other—better.
A heartfelt story of a mother’s love, loss, healing and hope. Whimsical illustrations are brought to life with deeply rooted words and symbols.
This book is a simple book of love written for you, a grieving loss mom, from other loss moms who have also heard those life-altering, soul-shattering words, “I’m sorry there is no heartbeat” or “I’m sorry, your baby is gone.” In the pages of this book, we share letters of love from our hearts to yours with the hope that, maybe, in the darkest, loneliest hours of grief, you will find a little bit of comfort in the words of another mother who has been where you are now. Our deepest desire is for you to know that you are not alone. We are with you.
Dr. Joanne Cacciatore—bereavement educator, researcher, Zen priest, and leading counselor in the field—accompanies us along the heartbreaking path of love, loss, and grief. Through moving stories of her encounters with grief over decades of supporting individuals, families, and communities—as well as her own experience with loss—Cacciatore opens a space to process, integrate, and deeply honor our grief. Organized into fifty-two accessible and stand-alone chapters, this book is also perfect for being read aloud in support groups.
Offers powerful practices such as mindful breathing, arranging celebrations of life, writing a love letter to your beloved, and more. Thich Nhat Hanh’s guidance will help you reconcile with death and loss, feel connected to your loved one long after they have gone, and transform your grief into healing and joy.
Books for Infant Loss
In this new and updated edition, the author encourages grieving and strives to cover many different kinds of loss, including information on issues such as the death of one or more babies from a multiple birth, pregnancy interruption, and the questioning of aggressive medical intervention.
ROSALIE LIGHTNING is Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart's #1 New York Times bestselling touching and beautiful graphic memoir about the untimely death of his young daughter, Rosalie. His heart-breaking and emotional illustrations strike readers to the core, and take them along his family's journey through loss. Hart uses the graphic form to articulate his and his wife's on-going search for meaning in the aftermath of Rosalie's death, exploring themes of grief, hopelessness, rebirth, and eventually finding hope again.
For all parents and family managing the emotional battlefield of baby loss. Losing a child is one of the most devastating events you can go through and yet, losing your baby – particularly before they are born – remains a taboo and often misunderstood topic. In this very gentle guide, Nicola Gaskin opens up the conversation around baby loss offering raw, honest and deeply empathetic support to all parents.
Presenting simple yet highly effective methods for coping and healing, this book provides answers and relief to parents trying to deal with the loss of a child. It offers 100 practical, action-oriented tips for embracing grief, such as writing a letter to the child who has died; spending time with others who will listen to stories of grief; creating a memory book, box, or website; and remembering others who may still be struggling with the death.
A memoir about losing her newborn son, Teddy, just hours after birth. The book is an honest and hopeful exploration of how she navigated this devastating loss, grief, and a different kind of motherhood, and it aims to encourage open conversations about baby loss. The book also details the author's journey through her subsequent struggle with secondary infertility and IVF, as described in her blog.
Books for Stillbirth
A moving, candid account of one woman's experience with stillbirth. Emma Hansen is 39 weeks and 6 days pregnant when she feels her baby go quiet inside of her. At the hospital, her worst fears are confirmed: doctors explain that her baby has died, and she will need to deliver him, still.
A memoir by Elizabeth McCracken about the stillbirth of her first child and the subsequent journey of grief and hope. The book chronicles her first pregnancy, which ended tragically in the ninth month, and the complex emotions that followed, including her relationship with her second pregnancy and the birth of her healthy daughter. The memoir is noted for its raw, honest, and often humorous exploration of loss, love, and resilience.
Books for Pregnancy Loss
Beloved grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt compassionately explores the common feelings of shock, anger, guilt, and sadness that accompany a stillborn child, offering suggestions for expressing feelings, remembering the child, and healing as a family. Ideas to help each unique person—mother, father, grandparent, sibling, friend—are included, as are thoughts from families who experienced a stillbirth.
Books for Children
A book to help children confront and manage grief over the loss of a young sibling. It can help you let your children know that the baby that was lost can still be remembered in a special way.
A book for the child who comes after the one who died. It's a perfect gift just for them. It explains in a gentle way the parents desire for a child and the sadness that comes over them when that baby dies. It then shares how the parents, with the help of the baby, get to the point of wanting another child to come into their lives.
Parents, educators, therapists, and social workers alike have declared The Invisible String the perfect tool for coping with all kinds of separation anxiety, loss, and grief.
A beautifully illustrated children's picture book that helps grieving families come to terms with the death of a baby at any stage of pregnancy, during, or soon after birth.
Introduces the concept of death to young readers by likening life to the ever-moving wind. When the wind is present, things move and fly and flutter about. When the wind goes away, things become very still. The authors explore the feelings we have when a loved one's life goes away, how we cope with missing them, and how we can celebrate their memory. It also introduces the various things people believe happens to a life that has moved on. Endearing illustrations of animals enjoying, missing, comforting, and honoring one another do a wonderful job of conveying the message that although life is very precious, "when it is time for the life to leave, it will go."
With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies.
A children's book written as a "love letter" to siblings who have experienced the loss of a sibling to miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death. The book uses gentle words and comforting pictures to help families process grief and to affirm that the bond with the lost sibling continues. It is written for a child and their family and is accessible whether the loss was recent or years ago.
Tells the story of a "rainbow baby" - a child born after a pregnancy loss - from the child's perspective. It explains that a rainbow baby is born after storms and sadness, bringing light and colour to a family who loves the baby who came before. The book aims to provide hope to families who have experienced a loss.
The book, a story of hope and comfort, has been written for surviving twins, to help them to talk about and remember their twin. The purple butterfly represents the twin and is a reminder that although no longer here on earth, their twin is always around them. It is a book of love and remembrance and helps families to talk and share their feelings around loss and grief, providing a happy memory to support their loss.
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