Resources
Adult Grief Group
Fellow Therapists, Available for your use is material for a 5 week Grief group for adults. If you use all of the material or some of it, please drop me a line! I'd very much like to know how it is being used as well as how you might have adjusted any of it to work for...
Supporting a Griever
âI am here with you.â When you have a friend or family member that has suffered an expected or unexpected loss it can be very hard to know what to say. Oftentimes because it is so hard, we say nothing. We may even avoid the person altogether. To the griever this is an...
There are no grief stages
Believe when I tell you that there is no such thing as grief stages. Grief stages implies that we live in Stage 1 for a bit and then we move on to Stage 2 and onward with NOÂ going back, moving around, falling out, and living in-between. If only Grief were this simple...
Dual Process Model of Grief
Oftentimes itâs helpful to have a framework which will help you understand and put words and an understanding to what you are feeling. The Dual Process Model of Grief provides us that framework. The Loss Oriented response to Grief is the GRIEF WORK. Itâs when you are...
EMDR
EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a proven effective treatment for trauma including PTSD, complicated grief, panic attacks, disturbing memories, anxiety, and abuse. EMDR is administered only by trained and licensed therapists and can be a...
Teen Grief Group
Available for your use is material for a 6 week Grief group for teens. While I originally created this for teens upon a request I received, it most certainly can be tailored for junior high as well as adults. If you use all of the material or some of it, please drop...
Grief Healing With the Four Tasks of Mourning
Download the 4 Tasks of Mourning PDF. It is oftentimes helpful for those who are Grieving and working toward Grief Healing to learn and adopt a framework for their Grief. There are many Grief theories, and I imagine Iâve studied quite a few. J. William Wordenâs Four...
Articles
The Case for Grief Support in Schools
Did you know â *7 out of 10 teachers have a student currently in their classroom who is grieving. This is incredible â but I bet if you asked a teacher, they already know it. Children are so often the forgotten mourners and I believe strongly that they can experience...
The Myth of Closure
Out of the numerous harmful myths about grief, the myth of closure has to be one of the most common. If we are grieving, how many times were we told at the funeral that now we have closure and can get on with life? As if a funeral magically stops the hurt. The idea...
The Guest House by Rumi
Grief Emotions
One of the hardest things about Grief is that we can feel a million different emotions seemingly all at once. And oftentimes we canât even put how we are feeling into words. The âGrief A Tangled Ball of Emotionsâ is a visual representation of all of those emotions and...
The Grieverâs 3 Promises
The grief journey that you are walking is 100% your own. You have permission to grieve in your own way and on your own timeline. Take a look below at the 3 initial promises that you can declare to make your journey just a bit lighter. Promise yourself to: Flow with...
Supporting a Griever
âI am here with you.â When you have a friend or family member that has suffered an expected or unexpected loss it can be very hard to know what to say. Oftentimes because it is so hard, we say nothing. We may even avoid the person altogether. To the griever this is an...
There are no grief stages
Believe when I tell you that there is no such thing as grief stages. Grief stages implies that we live in Stage 1 for a bit and then we move on to Stage 2 and onward with NOÂ going back, moving around, falling out, and living in-between. If only Grief were this simple...
Dual Process Model of Grief
Oftentimes itâs helpful to have a framework which will help you understand and put words and an understanding to what you are feeling. The Dual Process Model of Grief provides us that framework. The Loss Oriented response to Grief is the GRIEF WORK. Itâs when you are...
EMDR
EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a proven effective treatment for trauma including PTSD, complicated grief, panic attacks, disturbing memories, anxiety, and abuse. EMDR is administered only by trained and licensed therapists and can be a...
Complicated Grief
Have you heard of Complicated Grief? I really hadnât until I began educating myself on loss and grief. And, really, isnât all grief complicated, messy, unpredictable and like nothing else youâve ever experienced? In technical, grief-world terms, Complicated Grief is...
Downloadable Tools
Adult Grief Group
Fellow Therapists, Available for your use is material for a 5 week Grief group for adults. If you use all of the material or some of it, please drop me a line! I'd very much like to know how it is being used as well as how you might have adjusted any of it to work for...
More Activities!
Journaling Ideas Included in the Teen Grief Group,  Journaling Ideas offers you 22 journal prompts to help start your writing-engine and get stuff "out" which we all need! Dear Me Included in the Teen Grief Group, the Dear Me activity encourages you to think through...
Feelings
This Lesson Plan is ideal for the first session if doing multiple sessions and has been adapted from Healing Activities for Children in Grief by Gay McWhorter, MEd and ADEC Certified Grief Counselor. Working with young children on loss and grief is vital; however, the...
Stand up!
Teachers have students in their classrooms who have suffered loss from death, divorce, moving to a new neighborhood or school, etc. How can a teacher best handle the classroom impacts of these changes? Teachers are a trusted adult and may be the only place that...
My House
My House asks you to draw your house symbolizing your strengths, ways of coping, your support systems, values, etc. I love all of these activities and tools, but I have to say this one is probably my favorite! I love doing it with the little ones and the teenagers and...
Bingo
Provide to students to help them recognize the healthy activities they can do on their own such as âAsk someone how they are doing - really listen to how they answer and see if you can help somehow," and, "âRead a book - What was the main emotion the main character...
Feelings Wheel
Naming our feelings can have such a positive effect. Naming what weâre feeling without judgement has a tremendous impact and can help lower their intensity. And lowering the intensity allows us then to respond with greater self-control. When we know the words and use...
8 Cultural Competence Factors
Knowledge of these eight factors will help you enhance your multicultural direct and indirect prevention, intervention, and postvention service delivery skills. Adapted from Culturally Diverse Beliefs Concerning Dying, Death, and Bereavement:A School Psychologist's...