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Peer Mentors
Peer mentors are invaluable resources while on the grief and trauma healing journey. Mentors may provide a safe place to talk about issues that non-grieving and non-traumatized individuals may not understand. Mentors can provide a sense of normalcy when the new world view looks upside down. Peers may accelerate your healing by:
- promoting your social inclusion, support, and connection
- building your resilience and instilling a sense of hope
- enhancing your overall social and emotional wellness
- empowering you with a sense of “normalcy”
Resources
Books
- From Grief to Growth: 5 Essential Elements of Action to Give Your Grief Purpose & Grow From Your Experience by Paula Stephens
- Radical Survivor: One Woman’s Path Through Life, Love, and Uncharted Tragedy by Dr. Nancy Saltzman
- The Rules of Inheritance: A Memoir by Claire Bidwell Smith
- Permission to Mourn: A New Way to do Grief by Tom Zuba
Organizations
- Second Firsts (all loss)
- Modern Loss (all loss)
- The Compassionate Friends (child loss)
- Crazy Good Grief (child loss)
- Moyer Foundation (families with children)
- Dougy (families with children)
- TAPS (military loss)
- Wounded Warrior Project (military loss)
- American Widow Project (military loss with a focus on widows)
- The Dinner Party (loss in 20’s and 30’s)
- Rachel Kodanaz (loss in workplace)
- Modern Widows Club (spousal loss)
- Soaring Spirits (spousal loss)
- Trauma Survivors Network (trauma loss)
How can you integrate PEER MENTORS into your healing journey?
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