Healing House provides a free community Resource Library consisting of various books and brochures specialized in grief and loss subjects.
Topics include coping with the death of a parent, sibling, spouse, friend or co-worker. Also included in the Resource Library are books regarding sudden or violent death, suicide loss, anticipatory loss, and self-care.
Materials may be checked out at the Healing House free of charge.
Please contact us to reserve a time to visit the Resource Library.
Recommended Reading
For Professionals
For Adults
Downloads
Books
- We Get It by Heather Servaty-Seib and David Fajgenbaum
- Finding Meaning by David Kessler
- It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand by Megan Devine
For Caregivers
Downloads
- How to Discuss Death with Children and Teens
- Developmental Understandings
- Grandparents Self Care
- What to Say Instead
Books
- Helping Children Grieve & Grow by Donna O’Toole
- How Do We Tell the Children? Fourth Edition: A Step-by-Step Guide for Helping
- Children and Teens Cope When Someone Dies by Dan Schaefer and Christine Lyons
For Children
Downloads
Books
- When Dinosaurs Die A Guide to Understanding Death by Laurie Krasny Brown
- Water Bugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children, A Coloring Book by Doris Stickney
- Someone I Love Died by Christine Harder Tangvald
- Help Me Say Goodbye by Janis Silverman
For Teens
Downloads
Books
- It Won’t Ever Be the Same: A Teen’s Guide to Grief and Grieving by Korie Leigh
- When Death Walks In by Mark Scrivani
- The Grieving Teen by Helen Fitzgerald