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Fantastic support website from Cruse Bereavement Care by young people for young people

A group of young people who have themselves been bereaved have developed an interactive website for bereaved young people (aged 11+). The aim of the website is to give young people a voice and help them connect with others and discover hope.

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Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

In Grief Works we hear stories from those who have experienced great love and great loss – and survived.

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Living with Loss (Scripture Gift Mission)

Developed with bereavement counsellors, this booklet deals honestly with heartache, anger, fear, and loss. Verses (many from the Psalms) are coupled with evocative photos. Widely used by chaplains, clergy, and funeral directors and recommended by www.ataloss.org.

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Wendy Bray, The Path Not Chosen (CWR)

This booklet is in a pack of six copies of `The Path Not Chosen’, a beautifully illustrated full-colour booklet for the bereaved.

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Philip Yancey When Life Hurts (Hodder & Stoughton, 2004)

This honest, comforting and ultimately positive book is designed to help those for whom life hurts as they struggle to understand God’s place in their pain.

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Elaine Storkey, Losing a Child (Lion Publishing, 1999)

A series of pocketbooks designed for those involved in pastoral care and counselling to tackle life issues, problems, and spiritual and theological questions

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Harold Bauman, Living through Grief, (Lion Publishing, 1999)

This carefully crafted book gently explains the stages of grief and suggests practical steps for learning to live again.

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Jennifer Rees Larcombe, Beauty from Ashes: Readings for Times of Loss (Bible Reading Fellowship, 2010)

Forty readings offer gentle guidance and consolation, from the earliest stage of groping for God’s presence to realising the beginnings of new life and hope.

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Faye Landrum, Acquainted with Grief, Encouraging Meditations for Times of Loss (Barbour Publishing, 2006)

Encouraging Meditations for Times of Loss

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Sue Mayfield, First Steps Through Bereavement (Lion Hudson, 2007)

Sue Mayfield provides practical and encouraging advice on coping with bereavement including how to get through the different stages of bereavement