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Navigating grief and trauma with practical tools and resources
Doing Your Homework
Why consider doing your homework?
Gathering and understanding information related to grief and trauma—including normal reactions, behaviors, and processes—can assist individuals in applying helpful tools and resources to their healing process. Doing grief and trauma homework is similar to doing self-guided “bibliotherapy,” which refers to using books, articles, journals, magazines, videos, websites, and brochures to support positive outlook and change. Intentionally moving toward healing various components of our lives, whether physical, emotional, psychological, behavioral, social, or spiritual, allows room for the business of restoring, renewing, and rebuilding lives.
How does doing your homework promote healing?
By increasing the understanding that the personal effects of grief and trauma are universal
By decreasing personal isolation, helping you realize that no one is alone on their healing journey
By allowing recognition of possible steps to take to promote processing and restoration
By integrating positive new ideas, habits, and thought processes into life rebuilding
Resources
Grief Books
- How to Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies by Therese Rando
- On Grief and Grieving by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross & David Kessler
- Living with Loss, One Day at a Time by Rachel Blythe Kodanaz
- Permission to Mourn: A New Way to Do Grief by Tom Zuba
- The Grief Recovery Handbook by The Grief Recovery Institute
- I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye by Brook Noel & Pamela Blair
- A Grace Disguised: How The Soul Grows Through Loss by Jerry Sittser
- From Grief to Growth by Paula Stevens
Trauma Books
- Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body by Peter Levine
- Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal by Belleruth Naparstek
- Transforming Traumatic Grief: Six Steps to Move from Grief to Peace After the Sudden or Violent Death of a Loved One by Courtney Armstrong
- What Doesn’t Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth by Stephen Joseph
- The PTSD Solution by Alan Wolfelt PhD
Stress Books
- Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- The Ten Things to do When Your Life Falls Apart by Daphne Rose Kingma
Websites
Spousal Loss
Child Loss
Parental Loss
Military Loss
Suicide Loss
Other
- Books and Cds by Stephen Levine – grief and meditation educator
- Posttraumatic Growth Research Group at UNC Charlotte
- Griefnet.org – general loss
- ProjectRebirth.org – first responders & military resiliency programs
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