Thread by @rorybowman

A #2023thread on grief and grief resources 🧵

“Growing Around Grief,” whatsyourgrief.com/growing-around… references Lois Tonkin, 1996. Growing around grief—another way of looking at grief and recovery, Bereavement Care, 15:1, 10, doi.org/10.1080/026826….

Graphic of "my experience" versus what I thought "stages of grief" would be.

“Death is a date in the calendar, but grief is the calendar.”

John Pavlovitz, 2017. The Grieving You Need Most After the Funeral, johnpavlovitz.com/2017/01/05/the…, 5 January 2017.

The Grief Recovery Handbook from GriefRecoveryMethod.com is the resource I suggest most often for people stalled in their grief after a year or more, widely available used and from libraries.

Surviving Spouse or Partner Suicide Loss is the best recent book on grief I have seen, especially for immediately after. Its of wider applicability than the title might suggest, and there is a companion volume for friends and family.

Most hospices or hospital social workers will know of local "bereavement support" "grief groups," either locally or online, and those are also invaluable.

This is not a journey one need endure alone.

Alexander Hardy @ChrisAlexander_'s #GriefKit is also an excellent, immediate resource at getsomejoy.com/griefkit.