Find the support you need in your grief... try these resources to see what works for you.
Grief needs to be witnessed and shared - having others share compassion and empathy and understanding for your experience is an important part of a healthy grief experience. Here are a few resources to check out to help you not be isolated and alone in your pain.
Mourning Goods’ Founder Holistic Grief Educator Pamela Ann Noxon, has a private Facebook group called The Heart of Grieving, with weekly support talks, workshops, and tools for navigating your grief, in a non-traditional format. Less a traditional support group and more a safe space for learning, holding space, feeling, and coping, Pamela brings her revolutionary holistic approach to grief work with short, mid and long term programs, seminars, workshops, live videos, proactive exercises and more. Click to request membership.
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Tender Hearts by David Kessler
Separated into over 2 dozen “Types of Loss” these groups is are virtual versions of the traditional support group where people share their stories. Tender Hearts is a place where you can come to be supported in your grief. You can visit when you need to and leave feeling heard, understood, and hopeful. Tender Hearts allows people with all kinds of loss to take weekly steps to find peace and healing and create a life that honors your loved one with:
Instant 24/7 access to private website and community
Weekly live Heart to Heart sessions where you can work with David Kessler in a group format
New topics each week and deep dives into the aspects of grief that people seldom talk about
ZOOM Check-Ins. Check-in via ZOOM with David and the team
Step-by-step weekly lessons and worksheets
Weekly Q & A
Community - to connect with others and get support when you need it (and away from social media).
Specialized communities for unique circumstances such as loss of a child, spouse as well as death by suicide
Spark by Paul Denniston
A Community of the Heart, Spark is a private, safe space that invites you to explore mind, body, and spirit techniques to guide you toward compassionate transformation. This warm-hearted community explores guided movement rituals to release the pain, tap into your resilience to explore more play and meaning.
This is a community to heal, feel, grow, and transform. Even after the most devastating losses, it’s possible to find balance, hope, and keep moving forward.
Each month they explore a specific theme, become more aware, and embrace movement, breath, and sound to embrace your special gifts and talents and become your best self.
Explore new monthly themes, intentions, and reflections
Embody movement, breath, and sound to guide you through the obstacles
Empower yourself to acknowledge your loss and live in your strength
Embrace your special gifts and talents to become your best self
Express yourself creatively toward more play and meaning
Dougy Center for kids, teens, and young adults
The mission of Dougy Center is to provide grief support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults, and their families can share their experiences before and after a death. We provide support and training locally, nationally, and internationally to individuals and organizations seeking to assist children who are grieving. Founded in 1982 in Portland, Oregon, Dougy Center started the first peer grief support groups for children, and has become a world-renowned model for bereavement support known as The Dougy Center Model. Dougy Center is named for its inspiration, Dougy Turno, a 13-year old boy who came to Portland, Oregon to receive treatment for an inoperable brain tumor. Dougy Center is widely considered the finest support program and resource center for helping young people and their families with grief.
Grief Yoga & Grief Movement by Paul Denniston
Grief Yoga is a compassionate practice to move through the pain of grief and loss to reconnect back to more empowerment and love. Grief Yoga combines many forms of yoga, movement, and breath techniques to help students process grief and use it as fuel for transformative healing. This practice is not as much about physical flexibility as it is about emotional liberation. Students become aware of the present moment and where they hold struggle or pain in the body and mind. This compassionate space helps express and release struggles through movement, breath, and sound in exercises and flowing meditations. The intention is to open the heart and connect to the soul with dance prayers or laughter exercises that connect us to joy. In this way, students surrender in order to let go of pain and reconnect to love and the gift of life. Using 6 different branches of yoga, Paul Denniston’s Grief Yoga is an amazing practice that can help anyone - at any level of fitness or ability and at any stage of grief- with their pain of loss.