Too many people who experience grief, in the hopes of getting “closure”, try to follow the ever popular “5 stages of grief”. This can cause …
Good Grief Stories was created for people to share their stories and how they have found some good in their grief.
We will all experience grief. It is a part of the human experience. For many, there is no closure, only a life before, and after. People have found ways to channel that pain into something positive. Something good to honour the life of their loved one after the loss.
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“We knew how to love them in their presence, now we must learn to love them in their absence.” ~ David Kessler
Stories
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At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was …
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I lost my mother when I was six years old. She committed suicide in the basement of her parents home in the middle of the …
Projects
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Without My Mum is a facebook group dedicated to providing a safe place for those who have lost their mothers to share …
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After Life became a smash hit, and was so embraced by the audience that creator Ricky Gervais quickly jumped into making season …
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This project lays a foundation of healing through captured portraits of those personally affected by attempted or completed suicide, and provides a …
BOOKS
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“Over Our Heads is an immersive, elegant novel about two fascinating women who grapple with complex …
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You can succeed and have a happy life even if you had no support at …
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Twenty-five years ago and counting, Louisa, my true, essential, always-there-for-everything friend, died. We were 22. …
Organizations
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From my personal experience, the grief of a child is a very sensitive matter and so many are not aware of …
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In 2000, Adrianne Dartnall and her partner Rick Lennert lost their only child, twenty-one year old Danielle, when she was killed …
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Founded in 1977 by Dr Dame Daphne Sheldrick DBE, in memory of her late husband, famous naturalist and founding Warden of …
Resources
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Grief has no ending. It will change and it will shift, and the weight of it will get lighter as …
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In a talk that’s by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, writer and podcaster Nora McInerny shares her hard-earned wisdom about life …
Barbara Adhiya
Writer, Editor, Visual Journalist
Learning to live with grief since childhood