Books on navigating grief and loss

• Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death by Joan Halifax

• The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body In The Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk M.D.

• A Comb of Wishes by Lisa Stringfellow

• Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief by Michelle Cassandra Johnson

• The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski

• Grief Is Love: Living with Loss by Marisa Renee Lee

• Grief Thoughts: Brief Anecdotes About Profound Loss by Issa M. Mas

• Heaven’s Coast by Mark Doty

• I Sell Tomatoes, Inspiration and Consideration Before End-Of-Life by Michelle Angel

• The Light of the World by Dr. Elizabeth Alexander

• The Next Place by Warren Hanson  

• Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

• Self-Care for Grief: 100 Practices for Healing During Times of Loss by Nneka M. Okona

• Smell of Rain on Dust Grief & Praise by Martin Prechtel

• The Orphaned Adult: Understanding & Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents by Alexander Levy

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Peña Chodren

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

• The Year of Miracles: Recipes About Love + Grief + Growing Things by Ella Risbridger

• Yellow Tulips on a Cloudy Day: A Survivor's Journal by Christy Sims

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