For Bereaved Parents

Recently revised and updated 2022. An 8-page handout that is easy for newly bereaved fathers to read. Includes information about being angry, talking, working, your relationship and crying. Also available in Spanish.   ISBN: 1-56123-116-9

Children Die, Too: For Parents who are Experiencing the Death of a Child Living after the death of a child is not done according to a fixed pattern of emotions. The various feelings and experiences are more like changes in the weather. About the time you...

Carlene Vester Eneroth’s ideas for coping during the Christmas season. Offers ten important ideas for taking care of yourself during this holiday. 4-page handout  

Covers feelings, issues, other people, rituals and caring for yourself. “It may seem as if you’ll never be happy again. You may go to a bereavement support group and hear people laugh. You may wonder how anyone can laugh when you’re...

Practical, caring tips for friends, family and caregivers. A small, 4-page handout that is easy for newly bereaved parents to read. Also available in Spanish

Para Los Padres Que Han Experimentado la Muerte de Un Hijo (Fathers Grieve, Too in Spanish) A 4-page handout that is easy for newly bereaved fathers to read. Also available in English.

A Handbook for Couples Whose Child Has Died When my first son was a stillborn, my husband and I traveled very different paths in our grief process, both of us alone, uncommunicative, afraid.  No one explained to us that we would embark upon a long...

Sobrevivir la muerte de un hijo no se realiza de acuerdo a un patrón fijo de emociones. Los diversos sentimientos y experiencias se asemejan al clima. Justo cuando crees que la tormenta ha pasado, ésta regresa para afectarte nuevamente...

Healing a Parent's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas The unthinkable has happened: your child has died.  The normal circle of life has been broken and you have outlived your child. How do you go on? What can you do with your pain? Where do you...

An 8-page handout for grandparents wanting to help their children while grieving themselves. Talks about grief, denial, shock, sleep problems, talking, crying, getting support and what you can do to help your child and how to handle the holidays...

Dear Parents: Letters to Bereaved Parents from Bereaved Parents This is a support group in book form.  It is a collection of letters from bereaved parents to bereaved parents with other helpful information.  Some of the people who wrote are...

(Being with Parents After Their Child or Baby Dies - Spanish) Practical, caring tips for friends, family and caregivers. A small, 4-page handout that is easy for newly bereaved parents to read.  Also available in English

For parents and families who have experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death and are now expecting a baby 4-page handout

Helps with funeral planning, practical issues, deaths of all ages of children, men and women’s grief, phases of mourning, caring for yourself and unfinished business. “It doesn’t matter if your child was the tiniest infant or one who...

A beautifully written book for all mother’s whose child has died. Angela writes from the heart and lets mothers know that they are not alone in this battle. Every page is filled with support, love and kindness. The illustrations and words in this...

Revised 2023 Grief is the normal reaction to a loss. Actually, we experience grief throughout our lives. A pet dies. A friend moves away.  Our children go off to college. We lose a job. We grieve these losses, but we don’t always realize...

Holiday Blues: A Self-Help Manual on Grief Through the Holidays From the Introduction: As you search for relief from the pain and suffering caused by loss there is no better source for help than from those who have experienced or are experiencing grief...

Healing a Grandparent's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas  After Your Grandchild Dies The death of a young person is never easy. But when a grandchild dies, grandparents grieve doubly. They grieve for the loss of their grandchild, and they grieve...

After someone we love dies, each day can be a struggle. But each day, if we work to embrace our normal and necessary grief and care for ourselves, we will also take one step toward healing. Those who grieve will find comfort and understanding in this...

This simple and supportive booklet covers other children, your marriage, anger, hope, depression, single parents, and community people. When your child is ill you come to know a lot about fear. Fear of the unknown. What will happen? Fear of treatment...