HEALING HEARTS BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT - CANADA (Offered By Moms Stop The Harm)
Resources
Looking for resources, but it’s hard to know where to start?
Our Healing Hearts members have compiled a list of resources specific to substance-use related loss, trauma, grief and healing in Canada. (Books, Blogs, Online Groups, Guides, Podcasts, Videos, Local information and more, can be found below.)
Start with our Free Grief Handbook (Provided by MOM STOP THE HARM)
Books
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand, by Megan Devin
Understanding Your Grief - Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart, by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Healing the Adult Sibling's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Brother or Sister Dies (Healing Your Grieving Heart series), by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Understanding Your Grief after a Drug-Overdose Death, by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Unattended Sorrow - Recovering from Loss and Reviving The Heart, by Stephen Levine
The Sudden Loss Survival Guide - 7 Practices for Healing Grief, by Chelsea Hanson
Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working through Grief, by Martha Whitmore Hickman
Puddle Jumper Publishing: Stories to Support Grieving Children, including “I Am Here For You! A Story to Support Your Grieving Child Through Death from Substance Use”.
Someone I Love Died from a Drug Overdose [children’s book], by Melody Ray (Author), Janet Roberts (Editor), R. Lynn O. (Illustrator).
Here With You: A memoir of Love, Family, and Addiction, by Kathy Wagner
Facebook Groups
Websites
What's Your Grief - a place for sharing, support, resources, & more.
What’s Your Grief - The Grief Of An Overdose Death Article/Blog
What’s Your Grief - Talking with Children about the Drug-Related Death of a Loved One Article/Blog
Refuge In Grief - an online community and resource that helps people survive some of the hardest experiences of their lives. Articles, Books, Courses, Podcasts.
Canadian Virtual Hospice - support and personalized information about advanced illness, palliative care, loss and grief, to people living with illness, family members, people working in healthcare, educators, and researchers.
Starlings Community - To stop intergenerational cycles of trauma, mental illness, and substance use disorder in families exposed to the stress and stigma of a parent's substance use.