Community Grief Library

10/08/2021

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/10/07/1043881136/covid-deaths-leave-thousands-of-u-s-kids-grieving-parents-or-primary-caregivers

The affects of COVID are only now being seen and felt by many. Grief takes on many forms and doesn't happen on a predictable timeline. If you or anyone you know needs support in bringing some new vocabulary to grief, please check out some of these books.

Roughly 175,000 children in the U.S. have lost one or both parents or a grandparent caregiver to COVID-19, according to a new study. The majority come from racial and ethnic minority groups.

06/08/2021

"Grief helps us face and ultimately release what happened or didn't happen. And it opens up space to see what is and choose were we go from here." - Edith Eger author of The Gift

05/21/2021

05/09/2021

When Jan Richardson unexpectedly lost her husband and creative partner, the singer/songwriter Garrison Doles, she did what she had long known how to do: she wrote blessings.

These were no sugar-coated blessings. They minimized none of the pain and bewilderment that came in the wake of a wrenching death. With these blessings, Jan entered, instead, into the depths of the shock, anger, and sorrow. From those depths, she has brought forth words that, with heartbreaking honesty, offer surprising comfort and stunning grace.

Those who know loss will find kinship among these pages. In these blessings that move through the anguish of rending into the unexpected shelters of solace and hope, there shimmers a light that helps us see we do not walk alone.

From her own path of grief, Jan offers a luminous, unforgettable gift that invites us to know the tenacity of hope and to recognize the presence of love that, as she writes, is "sorrow's most lasting cure."

04/22/2021

04/22/2021

How to use this library:
If you are in the St. Paul area and would like to check out a book contact me at [email protected] and I will arrange for you to check out the book.

If you live outside the St. Paul, MN area, you can look through the titles of books and reviews of users and purchase a book that you think would be useful to you.

If there is a book that you have found useful in talking to your kids about hard things or has helped you through the grieving process, please share the title, author and illustrator and it may be added to the library as funds allow.

If you would like to make a donation to the community grief library contact me at [email protected]