Bereavement
Wellbeing Group Sessions
Bereavement and Me
How to live with grief. Talk with others about loss in a relaxed way.
Low mood and Me
Build motivation, boost mood. Manage your low mood, don't let it manage you.
Coping with grief and loss
Managing depression and low mood
Improve your sleep
Grounding Techniques
Techniques to manage strong emotions, where you may feel overwhelmed, including stress.
Box Breathing Technique
A simple technique to help you to manage your breathing, and calm your stress levels or anxiety.
Podcasts and audio resources
Grief works
Death affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our society, and grief is profoundly misunderstood. Hosted by Julia Samuel – a grief psychotherapist with over twenty five years’ experience of working with the bereaved – we hear stories from those who have experienced great love and loss – and survived.
Grief encounters
Grief Encounters is a weekly podcast series that looks at an issue that affects us all and yet remains so difficult to talk about: grief. Hosts Venetia Quick and Sasha Hamrogue hope to open up the conversation around loss and create a modern platform for people to share their own experiences, and start an open dialogue around the subject of death and all that comes with it.
Griefcast
Griefcast is a podcast that examines the human experience of grief and death - but with comedians, so it’s cheerier than it sounds.
Downloadable resources
Royal Institute of Psychiatry
NHS Coping with Bereavement
Mind Bereavement
IAPT self help guide
Help is at hand - for those bereaved by suicide
Reading for Wellbeing
Facing Grief - Bereavement and the Young by Susan Walbank
"[Susan Wallbank] writes with great insight and compassion, yet deals with the sensitive and often complex aspects of grief in a direct style which makes this book very readable." Cruse Chronicle "A very clearly set-out compendium of wisdom on all aspects of dealing with a death of someone close ... Altogether a very useful tool ..." European Christian Bookstore Journal "All counsellors would greatly benefit from reading this handbook and having it available for reference ... Its practical advice goes far beyond the good publications which are available on 'what to do when someone dies'." Christian Herald
Through Grief - the bereavement journey by Elizabeth Collick
Elizabeth Collick, herself a widow, writes out of her own experience and that of many others to describe what happens, in the hope that it may bring strenght and support to those in grief. She writes of the yearning ache, the strange fears, the anger, guilt, frustration, loneliness and lostness which makes up bereavement. The book does not seek to soothe pain, but to help people 'come through' to life on the far side of grief. The book is also helpful to professional carer - nurses, ministers, doctors, social workers and others - and to reletives, friends, neighbours and colleages of someone suffering bereavement.
Grief works by Julia Samuel
Death is the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood. So many of us feel awkward and uncertain around death, and shy away from talking honestly with family and friends. 'Grief Works' is a compassionate guide that will inform and engage anyone who is grieving, from the 'expected' death of a parent to the sudden unexpected death of a small child, and provide clear advice for those seeking to comfort the bereaved.
Apps
Grief works
Headspace
Meditation, mindfulness, relaxation.