Other Resources
Looking to connect with others who get it outside of The Dinner Party? We asked our community where they’ve turned toward for support. The following organizations feature regularly updated grief reads, as well as opportunities to connect online with peers who’ve experienced similar sources of loss.
There are also hundreds of local grief support agencies operating across the country, many of which offer a combination of online and offline support. Find grief support near you through The Dougy Center Database.
Online Communities
Modern Loss
A website offering candid conversations about grief. Beginners welcome.
Refuge in Grief
An online community and resource run by psychotherapist, writer, grief advocate, & communication expert, Megan Devine.
What’s Your Grief
A website run by two Baltimore-based mental health professionals with 20+ years of experience in grief and bereavement, that promotes grief education, exploration, and expression in both practical and creative ways.
Terrible, Thanks for Asking
A podcast hosted by writer Nora McInerny, which features honest conversation around and answers to the question “how are you?”
Mourning Hope
The Mourning Hope Grief Center companions children, adults, and families before and after a death loss. Mourning Hope provides grief support groups, counseling, community education, resources and referrals.
At Peoplehood, we lead 60-minute guided group conversations with up to 24 people that we call Gathers. They are pretty magical and help groups of people connect deeply and meaningfully. There’s music, breathwork, group sharing and 1:1 sharing about specific themes and prompts that are carefully curated for each group.
Still Standing Magazine
A leading online voice in breaking the silence on child loss—from conception to adulthood, and infertility. Founded in 2012, Still Standing shares stories from around the world of writers surviving the aftermath of loss and grief—and includes information on how others can help.
Reimagine
Reimagine hosts community-driven experiences that bring creativity, connection, and essential conversation to communities around the world. Their goal is to help all people face adversity, loss, and mortality, and channel the hard parts of life into meaningful action and growth.
The Loveland Foundation
The Loveland Foundation was established in 2018 by Rachel Cargle in response to her widely successful birthday wish fundraiser, Therapy for Black Women and Girls. Her enthusiastic social media community raised over $250,000, which made it possible for Black women and girls nationally to receive therapy support. Black women and girls deserve access to healing, and that healing will impact generations. The Loveland Foundation is the official continuation of this effort to bring opportunity and healing to communities of color, and especially to Black women and girls.
Option B
Option B is dedicated to helping you build resilience in the face of adversity—and giving you the tools to help your family, friends, and community build resilience too.
A place to share stories, ask questions or seek advice with others.
Resources for Specific Groups of Grievers
FOR GRIEVING TEENS & COLLEGE-AGED ADULTS
Heal Grief: Actively Moving Forward
Helping Students Coping With Grief
Experience Camps and Grief Sucks
PARTNER LOSS
CHILD LOSS
SIBLING LOSS
PARENT LOSS
Different Forms of Grief
ADDICTION RECOVERY
Live Another Day believes in equal access to life-saving mental health and substance use resources
Detox Local features abundant information including mental health and substance use resources specifically for the AAPI (American Asian and Pacific Islander) community
Bicycle Health offers this article about how to cope with grief while in substance use recovery.
BREAK-UPS & DIVORCE
Let’s Mend has a compassionate and comprehensive heartbreak program using the most effective tools from psychology, mindfulness, coaching, nutrition, and science-backed research to help you get on the mend from a relational rupture.
CAREGIVING
The Caregiver Space provides a safe and open space—at no cost to you—where you can be real about what it’s like to care for someone dealing with a serious disability or illness.
My Caring Plan has a blog specifically for Caregivers, including how to take care of yourself through burnout, how to get paid, take a break, and get help.
Caregiving Resource Center massive information hub covering nearly 100 topics from what is Medicaid to coping with stress.
A LIFE THREATENING DIAGNOSIS
Mettle Health helps patients and caregivers navigate a life-threatening diagnosis.
Imerman Angels provide personalized one-on-one peer mentoring for any cancer fighter, survivor, previvor, or caregiver from someone who has been there before.
Center for Cancer Counseling helps cancer patients express their thoughts and feelings without guilt or shame, manage overwhelming fears and concerns, and talk more openly with family, physicians, and caregivers.
Walk With Sally supports children impacted by cancer by providing care-centered one-to-one fellowships and additional programs and services to uplift the family unit and lessen the burden of cancer.
Mental Health Support Resources
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