Hi everyone, not the usual post for this group but hoping to find some suggestions. I lost my little one two days after I gave birth earlier this month, and now I’m on my healing journey.
Does anyone on have any book recommendations on grief, healing, or both? Maybe specifically dealing with my situation? However, I’m open to anything.
by DoodlePugMomma
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A monster calls by Patrick Ness, a very powerful book despite being made for young adults and learning that it is okay to let go.
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
The Little Prince is my recommendation. My deepest condolences to your family.
Not a book recommendation but my heart breaks for you, I cannot imagine. Love and blessings to you for a brighter 2026 ❤️🩹
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
I am so, so sorry.
I’m sorry for your loss. These helped me through grief.
Ann Morrow Lindbergh Gifts From the Sea, where she writes about going away alone to a beach cottage after her son – the Lindbergh baby – was kidnapped.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross On Death and Dying. She’s written other books on grief as well but this is where she introduces the idea of rhe five stages of grief – Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. The most important thing to know about these stages is there aren’t always or maybe even usually linear, one to another in order. You’ll jump around, feel more than one at once, think you’re past feeling one and then wham, it comes back. Don’t let that make you feel as if you aren’t progressing.
What dreams May come by Richard Matheson might be a good one. But it may be too heavy?
I find it quite beautiful and uplifting.
I am sorry for your loss 🥺
I work in hospice, so I read a lot of books about grief. Maybe some of these will offer you a little comfort. These are my top non-fiction suggestions; for if/when you may want to try one:
➡️ It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand by Megan Devine
➡️ How to Carry What Can’t Be Fixed: A Journal for Grief by Megan Devine
➡️ Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler
➡️ Giving Grief Meaning: A Method for Transforming Deep Suffering into Healing and Positive Change by Lily Dulan
➡️ The Grief and Happiness Handbook: A Supportive Guide to Help You Reclaim Your Life While Grieving by Emily Thiroux Threatt
➡️ I’m Not a Mourning Person: Braving Loss, Grief, and the Big Messy Emotions that Happen When Life Falls Apart by Kris Carr
➡️ Good Grief: Finding Light in the Emotional Depths of Life by Melissa Chernoe, Antje Howard, Dr. Blathnaid Carlin, et all
➡️ Grief is Love: Living with Loss by Marisa Renee Lee
➡️ As Long As You Need: Permission to Grieve by J.S. Park
➡️ The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss by Mary-Frances O’Connor
➡️ The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing by Mary-Frances O’Connor
➡️ Normal Broken: The Grief Companion for When It’s Time to Heal but You’re Not Sure You Want To by Kelly Cervantes
➡️ Resilient Grieving: How to Find Your Way Through Devastating Loss (Second Edition) by Lucy Hone
A Grief Observed by CS Lewis