Supporting Grieving Parents, One Book at a Time
By Alejandra G.
Losing a child is something no parent ever wishes to go through.
At Hope Through Healing, our mission is to provide comforting materials to guide and validate the people in your care as they navigate grief. We hope to offer an extension of the high-quality care you provide every day by putting together this list of books to help grieving parents cope with the loss of a child:
- Shattered: Surviving the Loss of A Child by Gary Roe
- Beyond Tears: Living After Losing a Child Revised Edition by Ellen Mitchell, Rita Volpe, Ariella Long, Phyllis Levine, Madeline Perri Kasden, Barbara Goldstein, Barbara Eisenberg, Lorenza Colletti, Audrey Cohen, Carol Barkin
- Life to Afterlife by Elizabeth Boisson
- When the Bough Breaks: Forever after the Death of a Son or Daughter by Judith Bernstein.
- Healing a Parent’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Child Dies by Alan D. Wolfelt
- Touching Heaven: Real Stories of Children, Life, and Eternity by Leanne Hadley
- This book offers a faith-based, or a religious perspective.
- Blue Nights by Joan Didion
- Specific to the loss of a daughter
- Letters to My Son – Turning Loss into Legacy by Mitch Camody
- A book specific to the loss of a son, for a grieving father:
- You Are the Mother of All Mothers: A Message of Hope for the Grieving Heart by Angela Miller
- A book specific to a grieving mother:
These books were generously recommended to us by bereavement professionals who are part of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO.) They have been read and used in their programs to help grieving parents.
If you have other recommendations you’d like to share with us, please contact us!
