
Resources
Understanding How Grief - Affects the Brain
Grief not only impacts our emotions but also brings significant changes to the brain, affecting memory, stress levels, and overall well-being.
Dying - for Beginners
This video explains the dying process very gently so that we understand it better and can have conversations with friends and family about it.
Love Your Pet - Grief Support
In this article we acknowledge the value of pets in supporting grief and the pain we can also experience when they die.
Looking - After Yourself
After the funeral, everyone else's lives seem to go back to normal, and you may be left wondering how you're going to cope. Read on for advice on taking care of yourself, crucial for your future wellbeing and that of others.
Bereavement - in Older Age
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.
The Benefits of - ‘Grief’ Gardening
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.
Losing a Loved One - Takes Your Breath Away
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.
Top Tips to Keep - Well Hydrated When Grieving
Read here why keeping hydrated in grief is important and how that can be achieved.
Supporting Grieving - Young People Training
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.
Symptoms -
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?
Funerals: Find an Independent - Funeral Director near You
Find here how The National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (known as SAIF) can help.
Funerals: Everything a - Young Person Needs to Know
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.
Surviving Christmas - When You Are Bereaved
Tips for surviving Christmas when you are bereaved. First and second day of Christmas.
Counselling: - What You Need to Know
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.
The Final Farewell: - The Power of Discussing Death
We can better prepare for loss, change the negative narrative, and remove the taboo by talking about death.
Christmas… a Difficult Time for - Those Who Are Grieving
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.
Annually - Remembering
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.
Baby Loss - and Grief
Losing a baby is one of the most devastating experiences a person can go through. This article covers how to understand the impact of baby loss and how to help those who have gone through it.
Supporting Grieving Students - Returning to University
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.
- Befriending
Loneliness is often something we experience following bereavement and can happen at any age. This article provides links to services that can help.
Preventing Drastic - Weight Loss in Grief
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.
Losing a - Child
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.
Nourish Your Body - When You Are Grieving
Nutritionist Sabine Horner recommends ways to nourish your body when you are grieving.
Rosemary for - Remembrance Cake
A recipe for how to bake a Rosemary for Remembrance Cake from Nigella Lawson’s book Feast.
Why We Can’t Stomach Food - When We Lose a Loved One
Grief can cause a decreased appetite and other food related issues.
When Something Terrible Happens by Marge Heegaard
BOOK: The 'Drawing Out Feelings' series of books has been designed to provide parents, educators and counsellors with an organised approach to helping children cope with grief, family loss and change.
When Someone Very Special Dies by Marge Heegaard
BOOK: A practical format for allowing children to understand the concept of death and develop coping skills for life, this book is designed for young readers to illustrate.
When Someone Dies by Tracey Cusick & Simon Hepworth
BOOK: This book asks the questions that children ask, and answers them in a succinct format. Simple illustrations and straightforward text are designed to help children through difficult times.
What on Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies? by Trevor Romain
BOOK: This book is a simple, insightful, and straight from the heart book for any child who has lost a loved one or other special person.
Diana Crossley, Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine
BOOK: A book offering practical and sensitive support for bereaved children.
Michael Rosen's Sad Book by Michael Rosen
BOOK: A beautifully illustrated read for adults and children about love and loss which explains why it's ok to be sad sometimes.
Ginny Perkins & Leon Morris, Remembering Mum
BOOK: The book reminds the reader of the need to express grief in a society which all too often sees death as a taboo subject
Waterbugs and Dragonflies by Doris Stickney
BOOK: This little book will help you find the right words...a caring thought...a comforting reflection to communicate compassion in extraordinary ways for bereaved children.
Britta Teckentrupp, The Memory Tree
BOOK: A beautiful and heartfelt picture book to help children celebrate the memories left behind when a loved one dies.
Granpa by John Burningham
BOOK: An illustrated book to help and support children with grief.
Badger’s Parting Gifts by Susan Varley
BOOK: A helpful reading guide from Child Bereavement UK that provides tips for reading Badger’s Parting Gifts with children and helping them better understand grief.
Blake Morrison, And When Did You Last See Your Father?
BOOK: Blake Morrison's book is a portrait of family life, father-son relationships and bereavement.
Leaving a Legacy and - Reducing Your Tax Liability
Leaving a part or your entire estate to a charity can reduce, and in some situations, eliminate your Inheritance Tax liability.
How to - Hold Your Own Memorial
If you can’t attend a funeral or have chosen not to do so you may want to hold your own memorial service for the person you have lost.
Learning Disabilities - and Bereavement
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.
Young People and - Traumatic Bereavement
In traumatic bereavement, children and young people experience very strong emotions because of the meaning they make of the death.
The Grief - Goes On...
Dr Marianne Trent, a Clinical Psychologist and Author of 'The Grief Collective', talks about mourning and letting other people know you are bereaved.
How to Cope - with a Tragedy
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.
Traumatic Bereavement
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.
What Is Effective Bereavement Support?
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.
Magnesium: Your Ally in Managing Grief Symptoms
One often-overlooked factor in managing grief is ensuring we are getting enough magnesium. Magnesium is an essential mineral that plays a pivotal role in over 300 biological processes in our body.
Autism and - Bereavement
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.
Grieving Children - Returning to School
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.
What to Do If Someone Dies Abroad
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 a Death
Registering the death of someone is the official record that their life has ended and is the formal government record of that fact.
Funerals: How to Plan One
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.
Protecting Against Identity Fraud
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?
How to Deal With Someone’s Belongings After They Have Died
This article outlines the ways that belongings can be passed on after someone has died and what the legal rules may be.
Government Advice When Someone Dies
There’s a lot of Government advice to help and support you when someone dies. This article explains more.
Funeral Etiquette in Different Faiths
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.
Five Tips for Supporting a Grieving Young Person
Here are five tips for supporting young people who are bereaved.
Cancelling Mail
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.
Official Documents: How to Easily Cancel Them
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 and Bereavement
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.
Funerals: How to Be Involved If You Can’t Attend
Saying goodbye at a funeral is a significant part of our relationship with the person we have lost, whoever they are. We may dread it, of course, but we still want to be present and to get it ‘right’ as a fitting tribute to all that they were to us.
Tough Stuff Journal: Someone Has Died
A resource to help young people express and share their grief and feelings of loss when someone has died - endorsed by professionals in the field.
Training by Listening People
Training for youth leaders, teachers and professionals supporting young people.
When Children Grieve by John W. James and Russell Friedman
In When Children Grieve, the authors offer a cutting-edge volume to free children from the false idea of “not feeling bad” and to empower them with positive, effective methods of dealing with loss.
The Grief Recovery Handbook by John W. James and Russell Friedman
Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on the capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories as well as from others’, the authors illustrate how it is possible to recovery from grief and regain energy and spontaneity.
Book: Love Untethered: How to Live When Your Child Dies
Vanessa May gives a moving account of what she went through after the unexpected death of her son, demonstrating that it's possible to survive such a shattering and traumatic loss, even when that might feel impossible.
Welldoing.org
Therapist-matching and coach-matching service for in-person and online therapy
Baby Mail Preference Service
Free service which allows you to register not to receive baby related mailings.
Getting Your Affairs in Order Before You Die
'Your Last Gift' is a practical step-by-step guide to getting your paperwork together, to help your loved ones deal easily with the 'sadmin' after your death. It has received excellent reviews. READ MORE HERE
The Snowdrop Tree by Ema Lou Rowe
BOOK: How to help a child through bereavement; a story with outdoor activities for adults and children to share
A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
BOOK An intimate, unflinching and fiercely funny exploration of loss by a man who lost his toddler son to a brain tumour.
An Expert’s Guide on How to Talk to Children About Death
WEBPAGE: The guide details the best way to approach the subject of death with children.
Talking About Death with Your Little One (CBeebies and Child Bereavement UK Video)
VIDEO: Cbeebies video about talking to children about death.
Supporting Children When Someone They Love Has Died Through Suicide
LEAFLET: Produced by the Balloons Charity this leaflet gives tips and advice on how to support children bereaved by suicide.
Activities for Families to Do Together After the Death of a Loved One
LEAFLET: Ideas and activities for families after a bereavement. Produced by Balloons Charity.
Suzie Goes to a Funeral
BOOK: A simple story to help and show what children might experience at a funeral.
Talking to Children (ARC)
BOOKLET: How to talk to children about a fetal anomaly termination
Lost for Words (Free e-Book) by Benjamin Brooks Dutton
BOOKLET: Advice for children about how to cope with grief by Childhood Bereavement Network.
Stewart's Tree by Cathy Campbell
BOOK: A Book for Brothers and Sisters When a Baby Dies Shortly after Birth
Coping with Special Occasions
BOOKLET: This leaflet provides information on how to cope with special occasions following the loss of a child
After suicide - following the suicide of a child
BOOKLET: Provides practical and emotional support following the suicide of a child
The Baby Loss Guide by Zoe Clark-Coates
BOOK: Practical and compassionate support with a day-by-day resource to navigate the path of grief
Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child by Gary Roe
BOOK: Bestselling author, hospice chaplain, and grief specialist Gary Roe uses his three decades of experience interacting with grieving parents to give us this heartfelt, easy-to-read, and intensely practical book.
Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple by Nathalie Himmelrich
BOOK: 26 honest essays by grieving parents
The Unspeakable Loss: How Do You Live When a Child Dies? by Nisha Zenoff
BOOK: A guide to hope and healing after the death of a child.
Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir by Jayson Greene
BOOK: A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss
Bereaved Parents and their Continuing Bonds: Love After Death by Catherine Seigal
BOOK: A counsellor shares her experience of working with bereaved parents
Books Beyond Words - Mini Bereavement Set
A collection of four books which cover bereavement and death suitable for people who find pictures easier than words, including learning disabilities and those whose first language is not English.
When someone very special dies by Heegaard, M.
BOOK: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief (Drawing Out Feelings Series)
Stillbirth Stories
WEBSITE: Stillbirth Stories is a unique collection of filmed interviews with parents and clinicians talking about their experiences of stillbirth.
Our Missing Piece
WEBSITE Provides support to bereaved parents all over the world by creating a unifying symbol, signposting service and educating the public about child loss.
COSCA - Counselling and Psychotherapy Professional Body in Scotland.
WEBSITE & TRAINING: Scotland’s professional body for counselling and psychotherapy
See You Soon by Philippa Skinner
BOOK: An honest and reflective account of a mother's story as she faces up to and lives through her son's death from a heroin overdose in 2007. Skinner is writing for those who are bereaved, those seeking to support people who are, and also, more specifically, for people affected by addiction
The Virtue of Remaining Steadfast When Losing a Child by Al-Suyuti J.
BOOK: The Virtue of Remaining Steadfast When Losing a Child is a compendium of consolations found in the earliest texts of Islam, the great majority of them attributed to the Messenger of Allah himself.
A Gift for the Bereaved Parent by Zamir Hussain
BOOK: The loss of a child is probably the most painful experience a parent can go through. It is at such times of deep sorrow and grief that people often turn to their faith. This book has been written to address this need from the Islamic perspective using quotes from the Quran and Ahadith.
The Nova Foundation
Online App providing comfort, trauma and bereavement support for those bereaved through babyloss.
If There’s Anything I Can Do: How to Help Someone Who Has Been Bereaved by Caroline Voaden
BOOK: Caroline Voaden explains how it feels to be bereaved and what helped her in the weeks, months and years following her bereavement.
..Tough Stuff Journal: Someone has died
A resource to help young people express and share their grief and feelings of loss when someone has died - endorsed by professionals in the field.
Tough Stuff Journal: Parents Splitting Up
A resource to help young people express and share their emotions and feelings of loss when parents separate
Camille Gibbs, A Sky of Diamonds
BOOK: An illustrated storybook for children about loss, grief and hope.
Linda Goldman, Great answers to difficult questions about death: What children need to know
BOOK: This book explores children's thoughts and feelings on the subject of death and provides parents and other caring adults with guidance on how to respond to difficult questions.
Helping Children and Adolescents Think About Death, Dying and Bereavement by Marian Carter
BOOK: A comprehensive guide that looks at how children comprehend the death of a pet or someone close to them, their own dying, bereavement and grieving.
Benjamin Brooks Dutton: It’s Not Raining, Daddy. It’s Happy.
BOOK: A book about surviving grief. A father and son start again after the tragic loss of a wife and mother.
Beyond Words - Coronavirus
BOOKS, E BOOKS: Resources for people who find it easier to understand pictures than words
Action on Pre-eclampsia
WEBSITE: Charity campaigning for support and providing information for those affected by Pre-eclampsia.
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
WEBSITE: Counselling and bereavement advocacy organisation
Elke Thompson, Books on Death for Young Children: “What an Extraordinary Woman on an Important Mission.”
BOOK: Book explaining death in words young children can understand
Ataloss.org: Being a Bereaved Parent Supporting a Bereaved Child
WEB PAGES ON THIS WEBSITE: Information on the AtaLoss.org website about being a bereaved parent
26 Years to Eternity by Lizzie White
BOOK: This read, illustrates the personal journey of a grieving mother over the loss of her deeply loved son, Robbie, who was tragically and suddenly killed in an accident.
Jayde Parkin, Mum's Jumper
BOOK: A simple, heartfelt and ultimately uplifting book for anyone coping with loss.
Clare Shaw : Love will never Die
BOOK: This book addresses the mixed emotions felt by a child during the grieving process.
Hope Again
WEBSITE: Fantastic support website from Cruse Bereavement Care by young people for young people
Joey O’Connor, Children & Grief
BOOK: Children and Grief is a book that offers parents a way to approach these tough questions with honesty, tenderness, and hope.
Children and Bereavement by Wendy Duffy
BOOK: Children and Bereavement is essential reading for parents, teachers, clergy and others who may be involved in helping a child or teenager come to terms with a death.
Lament for a Son by Nicholas Wolterstorff
BOOK: The author of this book, lost his 25-year-old son Eric in a mountain climbing accident, has started the long, unwanted journey to come to terms with his grief.
Alan D. Wolfelt, Healing your Grieving Heart – For Teens
BOOK: A book of simple tips for understanding and expressing your grief for teens
Stubbs, Stokes & Baker, Beyond the Rough Rock (Suicide)
BOOK: A book to help with supporting a Child Who Has Been Bereaved Through Suicide.
After You byNatascha McElhone
BOOK: After You is a triumphant testament to the resilience of the human spirit after Natascha's loss of her beloved husband.
Phyllis R. Silverman & Madelyn Kelly, A Parent’s Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family after the Death of a Loved One
BOOK: A book for parents about raising grieving children.