A Guide For The Holidays

A grief sensitive winter holiday planner from mindfulness and grief

A step by step guide to give you peace, comfort and meaning this holiday season and beyond.

 Free Grief-Sensitive Winter Holiday Planner for 2024 

VOCAL TONING

https://www.ekhartyoga.com/articles/practice/toning-your-truth

https://www.movingsound.org/earth-dances-1

Unraveling The Grief of Child Loss

https://stillstandingmag.com/2019/06/05/unraveling-the-grief-of-child-loss/ 

Grief Is Like An Ocean

https://stillstandingmag.com/2019/04/22/grief-is-like-an-ocean/

How To Support A Grieving Family

https://themighty.com/2019/04/how-to-support-a-grieving-family-child-loss/

What The Notre Dame Fire Reminded Me About Grief

https://themighty.com/2019/04/notre-dame-fire-grief-child-loss/

Hope and Grief, Connection and Creativity

http://thespacebtwn.net/2019/04/14/hope-and-grief-connection-and-creativity-an-interview-with-cara-martinisi/

How To Empower Boys To Express Their Emotions Freely

https://selfsufficientkids.com/raising-boys-emotions/

Grieving Mother Is Not My Only Identity

http://thepeacejournal.com/grieving-mother-is-not-my-only-identity/

How A Single Red Balloon Was A Powerful Reminder Of My Son

https://themighty.com/2018/06/red-balloon-child-loss/

How Physical Anxieties Manifest Differently In Me And My Husband

https://themighty.com/2018/12/physical-anxiety-symptoms-men-women/

Why Wedding Season Gives Me Anxiety As A Grieving Parent

https://themighty.com/2018/08/wedding-season-anxiety-child-loss/

Encouraging Open Emotions With Our Children As They Cope With Their Brother's Loss

https://themighty.com/2018/07/encouraging-open-emotions-with-children-after-sibling-loss/

What My Son Meant When He Said He Felt "Crazy"

https://themighty.com/2018/06/helping-children-manage-their-anxiety/


Heart Scavengers

http://www.edgemagazine.net/2018/06/heart-scavengers/

Podcasts/Videos

Build A Life After Loss

Chicken Soup For The Soul

The Daily Meditation Podcast

For The Love

Grief and Rebirth: Finding The Joy In Life

Grief Out Loud

Healing2BU (find on YouTube)

Meditation Minis

Modern Love

The Mindful Movement

The Purpose Show

Shapes of Grief

Shower Epiphanies

UnF*ck Your Brain

Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on Resilience

https://youtu.be/MRNGQsPdv9w

Books

Adult Books

A Grief Observed, by C.S. Lewis

Almost Everything: Notes on Hope, by Ann Lamott

Carry On Warrior, by Glennon Doyle Melton

Dearly Beloved, by Cara Wall

Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are SO You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be, by Rachel Hollis

Grief Day by Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living with Loss, by Jan Warner

The Gratitude Jar: A Simple Guide to Creating Miracles, by Josie Robinson

Healing After Loss: daily meditations for working through grief, by Martha Hickman

Journey to the Heart: Daily Meditations on the Path to Freeing Your Soul, by Melody Beattie

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, by Anna Quindlen

The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

The Universe is Talking to You, by Tammy Mastroberte

Tell Me More, by Kelly Corrigan

They Serve Bagels in Heaven: One couple's story of love, eternity 

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading, by Nina Sankovitch

Writers and Lovers: A Novel, by Lily King

Children’s Books

I Am Love, by Susan Verde

Maybe Tomorrow? by Charlotte Agell

The Goodbye Book, by Todd Parr

The Invisible String, by Patrice Karst

Wherever You Are, by Nancy Tillm