Recommended Books & More

On Grief:

Can Anyone Tell Me? Meghan Riordan Jarvis

It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok Megan Devine

The Wild Edge of Sorrow Francis Weller

What Looks Like Bravery Laurel Braitman, PhD

Finding Meaning David Kessler

The Beauty of What Remains Rabbi Steve Leder

Resilient Grieving Lucy Hone, PhD

The Grieving Brain Marie-Frances O’Connor, PhD

Notes On Grief Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Grief Works Julia Samuel

Mother Loss:

Motherless Daughters Hope Edelman

Motherless Mothers Hope Edelman

The AfterGrief Hope Edelman

Mother Hunger Kelly McDaniel

Reproductive Grief:

Miscarriage & Pregnancy Loss Kate White, MD

Not Broken: An Approachable Guide to Miscarriage and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss L.Shahine, MD

This Isn’t What I Expected Karen Kleiman, MSW

Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts Karen Kleiman, MSW

The Worst Girl Gang Ever Bex Gunn & Laura Buckingham

Death and Dying:

Being Mortal Atul Gawande, MD

The Conversation Angelo Volandes, MD

Advice For Future Corpses Sallie Tisdale

The Five Invitations Frank Ostaseski

How To Say Goodbye Wendy MacNaughton

What Do We Tell The Children? Joseph Primo

Young Adult Fiction on Grief:

The Sky is Everywhere Jandy Nelson

I’ll Give You The Sun Jandy Nelson

Holding Up The Universe Jennifer Niven

Dancing At The Pity Party Tyler Feder

Children’s Books on Grief:

The Scar Charlotte Moundlic

The Goodbye Book Todd Parr

Lifetimes Bryan Mellonie

A Kid’s Book About Grief Brennan Wood

Michael Rosen’s Sad Book Michael Rosen

Tear Soup Pat Schwiebert

Other books I love:

The Way of Integrity Martha Beck, PhD

Bittersweet Susan Cain

Daring Greatly Brene Brown, PhD

We Are All Perfectly Fine Jillian Horton, MD

Tiny Beautiful Things Cheryl Strayed

What My Bones Know Stephanie Foo

Opening Up By Writing It Down J. Pennebaker, PhD

Podcasts

What’s Your Grief with Eleanor Haley & Litsa Williams

Terrible, Thanks for Asking with Nora McInery

It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok with Megan Devine

All There Is with Anderson Cooper

New Day with Claire Bidwell Smith

Unlocking Us with Brene Brown

Healing with David Kessler

Huberman Lab with Andrew Huberman

Ted Talks

The Adventure of Grief with Geoff Warburton

Grief is Good with Joe Primo

“We don't ‘move on’ from grief. We move forward with it” with Nora McInerny

“What Makes Life Worth Living In the Face of Death” with Lucy Kalanithi, MD

“The Power of Vulnerability” with Brene Brown, PhD

“What Really Matters at the End of Life” with BJ Miller, MD

A Video Game to Cope With Grief with Amy Green

Apps

Grief Refuge

Calm

Headspace

Apart of Me