Grief Support

Grief Support The death of a loved one is one of life’s most painful experiences. As you travel along the path of grief, you may feel at times as though you’re wandering in a fog of sorts-uncertain as to what lies ahead or which way to turn.

With the help of your faith, and of your family and friends, you may find renewed hope and life, and signs along grief’s path that will help you to know that you’re going in the right direction.

Please know that while our mission is to serve families and help them to celebrate the life of a loved one, we are very aware that grief does not come to an end as you leave the funeral service. The need to talk about the loss of a loved one may seem overwhelming after a day, or week, or month, or even years. Long after family and friends have returned to normal schedules, you may still feel a need to talk to someone who is willing to listen and understand.

To learn more about the grief support resources in our community, you may also visit our community resources page where we have listed several national, as well as local grief support groups. Many of the sources listed may help provide you with sound information to help you cope with your feelings and emotions at this most difficult time.

Camp Amanda

Working with grieving families over the past 100 years has given us a special compassion for children who are experiencing a loss. We saw that, too often, children were not getting the support needed to adjust to their loss, leaving them struggling. In 2002, we joined with funeral directors all over the state to create Camp Amanda-Minnesota, a free weekend camp for children, ages 6-18 who have experienced the death of someone important to them. It is specially designed to provide the support and information children need, in a way they can understand. For more information, give us a call or click this link to the Camp Amanda-Minnesota website.

We are proud to support Camp Amanda-Minnesota

Books on Grief

The following books involving grief and the loss of a loved one, are 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

These books can be found at our local library in Pelican Rapids.

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	Kübler-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

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