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Tools for Dealing with Grief
The following resources can be helpful to those struggling with grief.
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Groups & Events
GriefShare - GriefShare is a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences. Offered at times by NCC as well as both in-person and online at other churches in the area.
Miscarriage, Infant Death, and Stillbirth (MIS) Support Group - This support group (which is not religiously affiliated) normally meets in Falls Church, VA, but is currently meeting online.
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Care Group - This NCC group gathers as parents of pregnancy and infant loss to celebrate, grieve, hope, pray and grow with one another. Meets online.
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Care & Counseling
For prayer ministry appointments, pastoral care appointments, and counseling recommendations, visit ncc.re/support.
Local Christian Counseling Networks:
- CentrePointe Counseling
- Life Christian Counseling Network
- Safe Harbor Christian Counseling
- New Life Christian Counseling Network (Nationwide)
For individually vetted counselors, use ncc.re/support.Questions? Check out our Therapy FAQs.
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Videos & Podcasts
Videos
Adjusting to a New Reality (29 min) - Mike Foster and Jared Herd, As Normal As Weird Can Be
Finding Hope in Grief - Insight for Living (1 hour) - Colleen Swindoll Thompson and Kay Warren
Grief and COVID-19 (14 min) - Preet Kaur
Grieving As A Family (6 mins) - Kay Warren & Pastor Tommy Hilliker, M.Div.
How to Get Through What You’re Going Through (39 mins)- Kay Warren
12 Steps of Grieving - Steve Arterburn - New Life Ministries
Walking Through Catastrophic Grief (6 mins) - Kay Warren
What Not to Say to Someone Who is Grieving (6 mins) - Kay Warren
Podcasts
David Kessler and Brené Brown on Grief and Finding Meaning - Unlocking Us with Brené Brown
Journeying Through Our Collective Dark Night of the Soul - Pete Scazzero, Emotionally Healthy Discipleship
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Articles & Books
Articles
After the Death of Her Son, Kay Warren Says that Easter Gives Her Hope Again, SimpleGRACE Magazine
After A Loved One Dies: How Children Grieve and How Adults Can Support Them - New York Life Foundation
Coping With the Loss of a Loved One, ADAA
Five Things to Help Heal from Grief - Key Ministry
Grief Counseling Resource Guide: A Field Manual, New York State Office of Mental Health
Helping Your Child Through Grief by Parent Cue
How to Deal with Grief - US Department of Health and Human Services
Left to Grieve, World Magazine
Something Small: A Story About Remembering, Sesame Street
That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief, Harvard Business Review
When Families Grieve, Sesame Street
Books
A Grace Disguised by Jerry L. Sittser
Confessions of a Grieving Christian by Zig Ziglar
Gone But Not Lost: Grieving the Death of a Child by David W. Wiersbe
Grieving with Hope by Sue Catherine Holtkamp
Holding on to Hope: A Pathway Through Suffering to the Heart of God by Nancy Guthrie
I Will Carry You by Angie Smith
Not by Accident by Isabel Fleece
Roses in December: Comfort for the Grieving Heart by Marilyn Willett Heavilin
Safe in the Arms of God: Truth from Heaven about the Death of a Child by John F. MacArthur Jr.
Safe in the Arms of Jesus: God’s Provision for the Death of Those Who Cannot Believe by Robert Lightner
Treasures in Darkness: A Grieving Mother Shares Her Heart by Sharon W. Betters
What If He Crawls Away?: A Child's Journey Through Grief by Renee Joy
When God Became ApParent by Darren Daugherty