Resources
Journals and Grief Workbooks
Grief journaling has been shown to have therapeutic value and to enhance meaning making. This is largely to do with its ability to help the brain process and cope with chronic stress following traumatic events. For those who already have an inclination to write, a simple notebook may be all you need.
For others, guided journals and grief workbooks provide welcome prompts and a dedicated space to connect with your unique experience of grief and loss. Research shows that engaging in these practices allows you to become more comfortable with suppressed and traumatic memories, calming the fear centre of the brain, which is often in overdrive during the grieving process.
“Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried. Grief like yours doesn’t get smaller because someone else has it worse. Your pain is your pain. It deserves space and attention. Being sad, being heartbroken, being devastated, these things don’t make you weak. They make you someone who loves deeply. This isn’t about ‘getting over it.’ It’s about learning to live with it, beside it, through it, in a way that honours what you’ve lost.”
Megan Devine
Heart Space
Ami Summers
A beautifully designed, self-directed, 258-page, self paced coaching book designed to help you through all stages of loss. Through gentle exercises designed by mothers, fathers, and families who have walked in your shoes, with the kind loving overview of trauma specialists, this is a safe space for you to work through your emotions, your memories and the legacy of your child and your dreams for the future.
Megan Devine
A journal and everyday companion to help you enter a conversation with your grief, find your own truth, and live into the life you didn't ask for...
Autumn Cohen
A guided baby loss memory book by the founder of @stilllovedfoundation with a children's book on grief coming soon. Based in the US but ships internationally...
Margaret Scofield
A memorial baby book to cherish pregnancy, remember baby, and honour motherhood...
Jo Betz
A guided journal for those wishing to explore their grief through writing after the death of a loved one...
Ash Perry
A letter journal gifting you a space for reflection, healing, and peace -‘a little space for your little one...’
Fox & Fallow
Guided memorial journal for miscarriage, stillbirth and infant loss...
Ellidy Pullin & Lotte Bowser
An online grief handbook and workbook featuring 110 pages of comprehensive grief support, including journal prompts, worksheets, and downloadable meditations...
Whittaker & Friends
This combined guided journal and baby book has been created for heartbroken parents who have suffered the tragedy of stillbirth and neo-natal loss...
My Baby Loss Journal
Whittaker & Friends
This combined guided journal and baby book has been created for heartbroken parents who have suffered the tragedy of stillbirth and neo-natal loss.