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.

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.

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 

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