RESOURCES

Grief is particularly personal. We each grief differently – often men and women differ as well. What is a resource for one is not necessarily for another. Listen deeply to your own needs and let this be your guide. Tragedy happens in life but it need not become our only definition.

BOOKS

Anatomy of an Illness, by Norman Cousins

A Broken Heart Still Beats After Your Child Dies, Anne McCracken, Mary Semel

A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as if it Were Your Last, by Stephen Levine

Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul: Stories about Life, Death and Overcoming the Loss of a Loved One, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen

Good Night, My Son: A Treasure in Heaven, by Esther Smucker

Home with God in A Life that Never Ends, by Neale Donald Walsch

Liberating Losses: When Death Brings Relief, Jennifer Elison, Chris McGonigle

Sibling Grief: Healing after the Death of a Sister of Brother, by P. Gill White, Ph.D

The Courage to Laugh: Humor, Hope and Healing I the Face of Death and Dying, by Allen Klein

The Fall of Freddie the Leaf – A Story of Life for All Ages, by Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D.

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, by Pema Chodron

When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold S. Kushner, 1981

When the Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or a Daughter, Judith Bernstein

WEBLINKS

These websites have information and additional resources of all kinds.

www.baltimoretcf.com -- Greater Baltimore Chapter – The Compassionate Friends

www.compassionatefriends.com -- The Compassionate Friends – national website

www.siblingconnection.net -- The Sibling Connections