Grief & loss
Living with loss of every kind, at your own pace. 48 guides in 7 groups.
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End of life
- Serious illness & facing the end of lifeFacing serious illness is one of the hardest things we do. You don’t have to do it alone.⏱ 6 min
📝 3› - Palliative care & hospice: what they are and how they helpComfort, support and a team on your side. Asking about it early is a gift, not giving up.⏱ 6 min
📝 3› - Choosing care near the end of life: questions to askGood questions bring better care. You are allowed to ask, compare and speak up.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Caring for someone who is dyingCaring for someone at the end of their life is a deep act of love. You deserve care and rest too.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - The last days & hours: what to expect and how to be thereKnowing what may happen can make it a little less frightening, and help you simply be there.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Talking about death & dying with people you love (and with kids)There are no perfect words. Showing up, telling the truth gently and listening is more than enough.⏱ 6 min
📝 4› - The first days after a death: practical steps & caring for yourselfYou don’t have to do everything at once. Take the next small step, and let people help.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Planning ahead: wishes, advance directives & legacySharing your wishes now is a gift of peace, for you and for the people who love you.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Anticipatory grief: grieving before a lossYou can miss someone who is still here. Grieving before goodbye is a sign of love, not giving up.⏱ 5 min
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Grief
- Grief: understanding lossGrief is a sign of how much something mattered. There is no right way to grieve, and you never have to carry it alone.⏱ 8 min
📝 4› - Different kinds of lossEvery bond is different, so every loss is different. Whatever you lost, your grief is real.⏱ 8 min
📝 3› - Grief others don’t see: aunts, uncles, cousins, mentors, exes & online friendsIf they mattered to you, your grief is real, whether or not anyone else sends a card.⏱ 4 min
📝 3› - Grieving your old selfYou can miss the person you used to be. That longing is real grief, and it deserves the same kindness as any other loss.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Finding yourself again after lossYou don’t have to become someone new overnight. One small, curious step at a time, you can grow a life that still holds what you lost.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Prolonged & complicated griefWhen grief stays heavy for a long time, it isn’t a sign of weakness or of loving too much. It means you deserve extra support, and help works.⏱ 3 min
📝 3› - Life after a lossOne task, one day, one small step at a time. You can build a life that still holds your love for them.⏱ 5 min
📝 5› - Anniversaries, holidays & milestonesHard dates can bring grief rushing back. A little planning, and a lot of kindness to yourself, can help you through.⏱ 4 min
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Infertility & loss
- Infertility & pregnancy lossWanting a baby, or losing one, can bring a grief others may not see. Your grief is real, and you don’t have to carry it alone.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Living with infertilityHoping for a baby month after month can wear on your heart. Your feelings make sense, and you deserve gentle support along the way.⏱ 4 min
📝 3› - Miscarriage & pregnancy lossHowever early or late, losing a pregnancy is losing someone you hoped for. Your grief matters, and you don’t have to carry it alone.⏱ 3 min
📝 4› - Miscarriage: grief no one seesEven if few people knew, you lost someone you were already making room for. Your grief deserves to be seen.⏱ 3 min
📝 4› - Stillbirth: when your baby dies before birthYour baby was born, and your baby was loved. You are their parent, always.⏱ 3 min
📝 4› - Losing a baby after birth (including SIDS)However long you had with your baby, they changed you forever. Your love and your grief both belong to them.⏱ 3 min
📝 4› - Partners and dads after pregnancy or baby lossYou lost a baby too. Holding everyone else up doesn’t mean you have to hold your own grief in.⏱ 2 min
📝 4› - Pregnancy after loss: hope and fear togetherYou can hope for this baby and still miss the one you lost. Both kinds of love can live in you at once.⏱ 2 min
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Losing someone close
- Losing a parentWhether you were five or fifty-five, losing the person who raised you changes your world. Your love for them still has a place to go.⏱ 6 min
📝 6› - Losing your momShe was there at the very beginning of your story. Missing her is one of the ways your love keeps going.⏱ 6 min
📝 4› - Losing your dadWhether he was your hero, your hardest relationship or someone you barely knew, losing your dad deserves room to grieve.⏱ 6 min
📝 4› - Losing a grandparentThey loved you across generations. Missing them is real grief, whatever your age and however long they lived.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - When your best friend diesYou chose each other. Losing them is real grief, even when the world doesn’t seem to notice.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Losing a childIf your child has died, we are so sorry. Whatever their age, you are still their parent, and your love still has a place to go.⏱ 6 min
📝 7› - Losing a brother or sisterThey knew you before almost anyone else did. Your grief for them is real, at any age, and it deserves care.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Losing a partner or spouseWhen the person you shared your life with dies, everything changes at once. You don’t have to find your way through it alone.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Widowed young: losing your partner early in lifeYou lost your person long before anyone expected. Your grief is real, your future is still yours, and you don’t have to walk this alone.⏱ 3 min
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Remembering & honouring
- Grief anniversaries, birthdays & hard datesSome dates carry a whole person inside them. You can meet those days your own way, gently, and not alone.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Ways to honour someone you’ve lostLove doesn’t end when a life does. Small, everyday ways of remembering can keep someone close.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Visiting a grave or memorial placeA grave, a tree, a stretch of beach: places can hold love. Go when you’re ready, and in your own way.⏱ 5 min
📝 3› - Remembering together: family & children’s ritualsSaying their name, telling their stories, cooking their recipes: remembering together keeps love in the family.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Photos, messages & online accounts after a deathA voicemail, a photo, a last text: small digital things can hold a lot of love. Save them first, decide the rest slowly.⏱ 4 min
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Specific losses
- After a suicide lossIt was not your fault. Your grief is real, you are not alone, and support is here for as long as you need it.⏱ 5 min
📝 3› - Losing a petThe bond was real, so the grief is real. There is no right way or right timeline to miss them.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Survivor’s guiltSurviving is not a wrong you did. Guilt is often love and grief with nowhere to go, and it can soften with time and care.⏱ 7 min
📝 4› - Ambiguous loss: grieving someone who is still here, or missingWhen there is no clear ending, your grief is still real. You can learn to live with not knowing, and still find hope.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - When someone you love has changed: dementia, addiction or illnessYou can miss someone who is still in the room. That grief is real, and you deserve support with it.⏱ 3 min
📝 4› - Losing someone to overdoseThey were so much more than how they died. Your grief deserves the same care and respect as any other.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Sudden or unexpected loss: when there was no goodbyeWhen a life ends without warning, your world can stop too. Go slowly. Your love was never only in the last moment.⏱ 3 min
📝 4› - Grief that ambushes you: songs, smells and placesA song, a scent, a stranger’s laugh: grief can arrive out of nowhere. It is love finding its way back to you, and the wave will pass.⏱ 3 min
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