Grief: Books, Websites, Local Resources
Books - for Adults
It’s OK That You’re Not OK by Megan Devine (sudden loss, has an accompanying journal/workbook)
Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler (general loss, has an accompanying journal/workbook)
Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child by Gary Roe (loss of a child)
Widow to Widow by Genevieve Davis Ginsburg (loss of husband)
Widower to Widower by Fred Colby (loss of wife)
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Dideon (spousal loss)
I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye by Brook Noel and Dr. Pamela Blair (loss due to suicide)
H is for Hawk by Helen McDonald (loss of a father)
Bearing the Unbearable by Joanne Cacciatore (general loss)
Ambiguous Loss by Pauline Boss (anticipatory grief, loss without closure)
Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman (loss of a mother)
The After-Grief by Hope Edelman (general loss, long-term process of grief)
Books - for Kids and Teens
Something Very Sad Thing Happened by Bonnie Zucker (ages 2-4yrs)
The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (ages 9-12yrs)
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (age 10+)
When Dinosaurs Die by Laurie Krasny Brown (ages 4-7yrs)
Fall of Freddy the Leaf by Leo Buscaglia (ages 3-9yrs)
Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief by Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner (age 16+)
Blount and Knox County Resources
Dr. Jason Troyer - Grandview Cemetery, Maryville https://www.grandviewcemetery.com/grief-overview
Mane Support - TN’s only Grief Center, Rockwood https://www.manesupport.org/
Blount Memorial Grief Support Group - Maryville https://blountmemorial.org/hospice--grief_support_group
Caregiver Coffee and Conversation - Vienna Coffee, Maryville https://blountmemorial.org/secondary.php?eid=282
Death Cafe - Smith Life & Legacy Event Center, Maryville https://deathcafe.com/deathcafe/19134/
Hospice of Tennessee - Knoxville https://www.hospiceoftennessee.org/bereavement.php
Websites
Grief.com - https://grief.com/
The Dougy Center - https://www.dougy.org/
What’s Your Grief? - https://whatsyourgrief.com/