Grief not only impacts our emotions but also brings significant changes to the brain, affecting memory, stress levels, and overall well-being.

This video explains the dying process very gently so that we understand it better and can have conversations with friends and family about it. 

In this article we acknowledge the value of pets in supporting grief and the pain we can also experience when they die.

Although losing a loved one is perhaps more common in later life, this doesn’t make it any easier to deal with. If someone you know has been bereaved, there are some simple things you can do to support them.

When you lose someone, the grief will never go away completely — but there are healthy ways to cope. Some people find that gardening as they grieve, known as ‘grief gardening’, can gently relieve some of the emotional and physical symptoms after the loss of a loved one.

AtaLoss Subject Matter Expert, Sabine Horner is a nutritionist. Here she writes about how deep breathing can help us deal with the storms of emotion when we're bereaved.

Read here why keeping hydrated in grief is important and how that can be achieved.

ListeningPeople training and resources provide tools for teachers, youth workers, counsellors and anyone who works with young people to safely and confidently enable them to engage around the difficult topic of loss.

Our Body’s Response to Emotional Stress: Unveiling Hidden Causes of Common Grief Symptoms. Are you puzzled by the myriad of grief symptoms you are experiencing?

Find here how The National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (known as SAIF) can help.

A useful film and book to help any young person understand funerals (burial and cremation) and decide whether to attend and what role they can play in saying goodbye to a loved one.

Tips for surviving Christmas when you are bereaved. First and second day of Christmas.

We provide some information here about what counselling is, what to expect and how to find a good counsellor that suits your needs.  The information is helpfully provided by the Association of Christian Counsellors.

We can better prepare for loss, change the negative narrative, and remove the taboo by talking about death.

Christmas is a difficult time for those grieving. This is the season of traditions and family gatherings and a by-product is that it highlights the ‘missing-person-shaped’ hole in our lives.

We encourage people who have been bereaved to consider activities on offer at this time to mark loved ones and help them with their grief.

As the new university year begins, supporting young adults as they navigate being away from home can be challenging. Here our Founder, Yvonne Tulloch provides quick tips on how to do so.

Loneliness is often something we experience following bereavement and can happen at any age. This article provides links to services that can help.

Sabine Horner explains why eating can become a major issue after losing a loved one. In the early days, most grievers simply do not feel hungry.

The death of a child, of any age, brings heartbreak and devastation. This article was written by Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds who set up the Good Grief Project following the death of their son, Josh.

Nutritionist Sabine Horner recommends ways to nourish your body when you are grieving.

A recipe for how to bake a Rosemary for Remembrance Cake from Nigella Lawson’s book Feast.

Grief can cause a decreased appetite and other food related issues.

Leaving a part or your entire estate to a charity can reduce, and in some situations, eliminate your Inheritance Tax liability.

This briefing is produced by Brake, the road safety charity. It aims to raise awareness of how people with learning disabilities experience grief, and provides advice on how to support them.

In traumatic bereavement, children and young people experience very strong emotions because of the meaning they make of the death.

Dr Marianne Trent, a Clinical Psychologist and Author of 'The Grief Collective', talks about mourning and letting other people know you are bereaved.

Every death brings its own trauma to survivors. However, when someone is suddenly killed in an accident or murdered, the stress levels rise considerably for those left behind.

Trauma refers to the way that some distressing events are so extreme or shocking that they overwhelm a person’s ability to cope, resulting in lasting negative impact.

There is a lot of good intention around when it comes to bereavement support in terms of providing it but not a great deal of understanding of all the options available and the benefits of informal support.

There is not a great deal of research on how people with autism deal with bereavement. However there is useful advice available that can help us support anyone with autism, whatever their age.

Children return to school after summer break and if they are recently bereaved it can be even more emotional for them. This our guide on supporting them during that time.

You might have to deal with the will, money and property of the person who's died if you're a close friend or relative, or the executor of the will.

If your loved one dies abroad there are a whole set of considerations to take into account. However, there are people to help you and you should seek their advice if you find yourself in this situation.

Registering the death of someone is the official record that their life has ended and is the formal government record of that fact.

Our guide on how to plan a funeral. A funeral is an opportunity to create a special tribute to your loved one and whilst painful, can also be memorable and a positive experience.

We all know that thanks to the wide availability of personal information online identity fraud is increasing. But what happens when an identity is stolen after a person has died?

There’s a lot of Government advice to help and support you when someone dies. This article explains more.

If you are attending the funeral of a someone of a different faith you can get advice here on, for example, what to expect, how to pay your respects, how to send condolences and what to wear to the funeral.

Here are five tips for supporting young people who are bereaved.

This is our guide to cancelling mail. Receiving post for the person who has died can be very difficult. Depending on the type of mail, there are a variety of practical measures you can take to deal with the problem.

Using the Government's  ‘Tell Us Once’ service will ensure all government departments are informed.  This includes passports, driving licenses, pensions, benefits, national insurance, tax and blue badges.

Benefits for you if you are a partner or child of the deceased. Depending on which of your loved ones has died your tax allowances, National Insurance and benefits may change.