Grief/Loss

No matter your age, occupation, lifestyle or background, chances are you’ve experienced struggle or challenges in your life. From anxiety to depression to more unique issues and circumstances, seeking help is the first step to healing.

We are a private outpatient clinic, featuring over 35 educated and professional therapists of varied specialties and expertise — each graduate level trained, experienced and state licensed. No matter what […]

It may be hard for you to feel optimistic about the future right now. If you’ve lost a spouse, child, family member, or friend, you’ve probably found there are not many people who understand the deep hurt you feel. 

Loving Outreach to Survivors of Suicide is a free, non-denominational program that supports individuals who are grieving the loss of a loved one by suicide. The LOSS Program is offered by Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago […]

This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending,” writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. 

Together in the Loss of a Child Support Group TLC is a support group for people who have experienced the death of a child through stillbirth, early infant death or miscarriage. A great deal of healing takes place when bereaved parents share feelings and emotions and talk to others who truly understand and care.

Mourning the death of a loved one is a process  all of us will go through at one time or another. 

For those who have suffered the loss of a loved one, here are strength and thoughtful words to inspire and comfort.

“The grief process has no timeline as each individual’s experiences are personal and unique. At Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care we have a well-earned reputation for providing comfort, care and compassion as family members work through the emotions of grieving. 

The Compassionate Friends is about transforming the pain of grief into the elixir of hope. It takes people out of the isolation society imposes on the bereaved and lets them express their grief naturally. With the shedding of tears, healing comes.

“This comforting and healing book is a must–not only for women who have at one time experienced pregnancy loss but also for their parents, sisters, daughters, brothers, and friends.

In this remarkably useful guide, widow, author, and therapist Genevieve Davis Ginsburg offers fellow widows-as well as their family and friends-sage advice for coping with the loss of a husband. From learning to travel and eat alone […]

Before Their Time is the first work to present adult children survivors’ (defined as eighteen or above at the time of the parent’s death) accounts of their loss, grief, and resolution following a parent’s suicide.

Willow House is a non-profit organization dedicated to the needs of grieving children and their families.  We are recognized as a leader in the field of children’s grief locally and nationally. 

The National Alliance for Grieving Children (NAGC) provides a network for nationwide communication between hundreds of  professionals and volunteers who want to share ideas, information and resources with each other to better support the grieving children and families they serve in their own communities. 

Suicide is NEVER the answer, getting help is the answer. If you are suicidal, have attempted suicide, or are a suicide survivor, you will find help, hope, comfort, understanding, support, love, and extensive resources here.

Amy and Allie, twins, were eight years old and their brother David was four when their father suddenly died in his sleep. Encouraged and guided by their mother, the three children kept a journal for almost two years.

Eighteen children from age 7-17, speak openly of their experiences and feelings. As they speak we see them in photos with their surviving parent and with other family members, in the midst of their everyday lives.

Melody Beattie offers advice on how to move on after a major loss, such as the death of a loved one, the end of a career, or a health crisis, based on her own personal experience and the lessons she learned along the way.