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Suggested Reading & Resources


HOSPICE:
Excellent resource material.
www.hospicenet.org

BC Bereavement Helpline

The BC Bereavement Helpline is a free, anonymous, and secure helpline answered by caring individuals who are there to just listen or to help you find support in your community. With access to over 250 grief support groups in the province at their fingertips, our staff and volunteers can give you information that will connect you with the type of support best suited to your needs.

The BC Bereavement Helpline is the leader in information for not-for-profit bereavement support services in the province.

For more information visit the BC Bereavement website.

BROCHURES BY DR. ALAN WOLFELT
Educator and practicing Thanatologist. Dr. Wolfelt is a noted author and has produced “The Helping” series of brochures.
www.centerforloss.com

GRIEF RECOVERY INSTITUTE
We are grief counselors, certified by the Grief Recovery Institute largest Grief Recovery institute in the world. We operate in the Lower Mainland.
Grief is accumulative. Grief Recovery® is primarily an educational, or re-educational experience, based on the fact that most of us were never taught effective tools for dealing with grief. Most participants find that their subsequent therapy is enhanced by their experience in the workshop. In fact, many therapists refer clients to the workshop.

Unresolved grief tends to take people “out of the moment,” that is to cause you to be off in conversations with people who are no longer physically there with you.

Many grief groups provide an environment for people to verbalize the thoughts and feelings they experience following a loss. While there is benefit to that kind of expression, often it is not enough. Generally it will have a short-term benefit and not address the underlying issues of “incomplete emotional” communications that sustain unresolved grief. The Grief Recovery® Workshop addresses the incompleteness so that there is long-term benefit, completing the pain and the unfinished emotions.

Assuming that your physical health is okay, unresolved grief tends to: Tends to close our hearts down

  • Weight gain/loss
  • Addictions, alcohol, food, drugs, sex etc.
  • Busyness in our heads
  • Difficulty focusing
  • Anger outbursts
  • Reclusive
  • Live in the past memories
  • Anxiety
  • Inability to allow yourself to enjoy life
  • ….and more.

The website is www.freeofgrief.org