Local Support Groups
Has someone you loved died? Coping with the death of a loved one is one of life's most difficult challenges. It can be lonely and confusing. Attempts to deny the painful feelings can prolong the grief.
There is Hope. Healing will come...please contact us to find out about local grief support services in our community or the surrounding area.
Books on grief and loss available in our funeral home:
A Time To Mourn, a Time To Dance: Help for the Losses in Life ~Metzgar, Margaret
Angel Catcher ~Eldon, Kathy & Amy
Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul
For Such a Time as This: Meditations Volume 1 - Old Testament,
Volume 2 - Gospels, Volume 3 - Epistles
Healing Grief ~Parachin, Victor M.
Helping Children Cope with the Loss Of a Loved One: A Guide for Grownups ~Kroen, William C.
I Wasn't Ready To Say Goodbye ~Noel, Brook & Blair, Pamela D.
Living when a Loved One Has Died ~Grollman, Earl A.
Talking About Death, a Diology Between Parent and Child ~Grollman, Earl A.
The Bereaved Parent ~Schriff, Harriet Sarnoff
The Next Place ~Hanson, Warren
What On Earth Do You Do when Someone Dies? ~Romain, Trevor &
Verdick, Elizabeth
When There Are No Words ~Walton, Charlie
Books on grief and loss at our local library:
A Garden of Love and Healing: Living Tributes to Those We Have Loved and Lost ~Olson, Marsha
Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief ~Boss, Pauline
After Great Pain: a New Life Emerges ~Cole, Diane
After the Death of a Child: Living with Loss Through the Years ~Finkbeiner, Ann K
A Personal Guide to Living with Loss ~Vail, Elaine
At Death's Door: Facing the Terminal Illness of a Loved One ~Grollman, Earl A
A Time to Mourn, a Time to Dance: Help For the Losses in Life ~Metzgar, Margaret., Aid Association For Lutherans
Comforting Those Who Grieve ~Murphey, Cecil B.
Companion Through the Darkness: Inner Dialogues On Grief ~Ericsson, Stephanie
Coping with Death & Grief ~Heegaard, Marge Eaton
Coping with Grieving and Loss ~Giddens, Sandra., Giddens, Owen
Cry Until You Laugh: a Candid Approach to Grief and Death Obershaw, Richard J
Death ~Sprung, Barbara
Death: Coping with the Pain ~Kuehn, Eileen
Death’s Single Privacy, Grieving and Personal Growth ~Phipps, Joyce
Everything You Need to Know When Someone You Know Has Been Killed ~Schleifer, Jay
Explaining Death to Children ~Grollman, Earl A
Facing Death, Finding Love ~Church, Dawson
Forever Ours: a Forensic Pathologist's Perspective On Immortality and Living -- a Collection of Real-Life Stories ~Amatuzio, Janis
Going Solo: Widows Tell Their Stories of Love, Loss, and Rediscovery ~Menten, Theodore
Good Grief: a Constructive Approach to the Problem of Loss
Grieving: a Beginner's Guide ~Mccormack, Jerusha Hull
Grieving: a Love Story ~Coughlin, Ruth
Grieving: How to Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies ~Rando, Therese A
Guiding Your Child Through Grief ~Emswiler, Mary Ann., Emswiler, James P
Handbook For Those Who Grieve: What You Should Know and What You Can Do During Times of Loss: a Resource For Family, Friends, Ministers, Caregivers, and Colleagues ~Auz, Martin M., andrews, Maureen Lyons
Healing a Child's Grieving Heart 100 Practical Ideas For Families, Friends & Caregivers ~Wolfelt, Alan D., Phd
Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas For Families, Friends & Caregivers ~Wolfelt, Alan
Healing Your Grieving Heart For Teens: 100 Practical Ideas ~Wolfelt, Alan
Help, Comfort, and Hope After Losing Your Baby in Pregnancy Or the First Year ~Lothrop, Hannah
Helping Children Cope with the Loss of a Loved One: a Guide For Grownups ~Kroen, William C
How Can I Help?: Reaching Out to Someone Who Is Grieving ~Kolf, June Cerza
How to Survive the Loss of a Love: 58 Things to Do When There Is Nothing to Be Done ~Colgrove, Melba
How to Survive the Loss of a Parent: a Guide For Adults ~Akner, Lois F., Whitney, Catherine
I'm Grieving as Fast as I Can: How Young Widows and Widowers Can Cope and Heal ~Feinberg, Linda Sones
I'm Not as Old as I Used to Be: Reclaiming Your Life in the Second Half ~Weaver, Frances
In Lieu of Flowers: a Conversation For the Living ~Cobb, Nancy
Letting Go with Love: the Grieving Process ~O'Connor, Nancy
Let's Talk About When a Parent Dies ~Weitzman, Elizabeth
Let's Talk About When Your Pet Dies ~Johnston, Marianne
Life After Loss: a Personal Guide to Dealing with Death, Divorce, Job Change, and Relocation ~Deits, Bob
Life After Loss: Conquering Grief and Finding Hope ~Moody, Raymond A., Arcangel, Dianne
Life touches Life: a Mother's Story of Stillbirth and Healing ~Ash, Lorraine
Living Through Personal Crisis ~Stearns, Ann Kaiser
Living When a Loved One Has Died ~Grollman, Earl A.
Living with Grief: Children, Adolescents, and Loss ~Doka, Kenneth J., Hospice Foundation of America
Living with Loss: a Dramatic New Breakthrough in Grief Therapy ~Ramsay, Ronald W., Noorbergen, Rene
Losing a Child: Explorations in Grief ~Hurcombe, Linda
Loss of Dreams: a Special Kind of Grief ~Bowman, Ted
Loss: Understanding the Emptiness ~Kuehn, Eileen
My Son ... My Son: a Guide to Healing After a Suicide in the Family ~Bolton, Iris., Mitchell, Curtis
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss ~Kabler-Ross, Elisabeth., Kessler, David
Parenthood Lost: Healing the Pain After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Death ~Berman, Michael R
Sam's Dad Died: a Child's Book of Hope Through Grief ~Holmes, Margaret M., 1944-, Mudlaff, Sasha J., 1967-, Aitken, Susan
She Came to Live Out Loud: An Inspiring Family Journey Through Illness, Loss, and Grief ~Macpherson, Myra
Suddenly Single ~Robertson, John
The Courage to Grieve ~Tatelbaum, Judy
The Goodbye Boat ~Joslin, Mary, 1953-, St. Louis Little, Claire
The Healing Power of Grief ~Silvey Miller, Jackey
The Year of Magical Thinking ~Didion, Joan
Unattended Sorrow: Recovering From Loss and Reviving the Heart ~Levine, Stephen
Understanding Grief: Helping Yourself Heal ~Wolfelt, Alan
Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential touchstones For Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart ~Wolfelt, Alan
Waiting with Gabriel: a Story of Cherishing a Baby's Brief Life ~Kuebelbeck, Amy
What Helped Me When My Loved One Died ~Grollman, Earl A
What On Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies? ~Romain, Trevor., Verdick, Elizabeth
What to Do When the Police Leave: a Guide to the First Days of Traumatic Loss ~Jenkins, Bill, Prof.
When a Friend Dies: a Book For Teens About Grieving and Healing ~Gootman, Marilyn E., 1944
When a Grandchild Dies: What to Do, What to Say, How to Cope ~Galinsky, Nadine
When a Loved One Dies: Walking Through Grief as a Teenager ~Franklin, Alica Sims
When Pregnancy Fails: Families Coping with Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Death ~Borg, Susan, 1947-, Lasker, Judith
When the Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son Or Daughter ~Bernstein, Judith R
Widowhood Happens ~Garrison, Gene K
You and a Death in Your Family ~Wilson, Antoine |
