The Grief Help Blog

Eulogy Writing Prompts to Help You Write a Heartfelt Funeral Speech

Eulogy writing prompts can help you gather your thoughts, find meaningful memories, and write a heartfelt tribute for a funeral, memorial service, or Celebration of Life. This gentle guide offers reflective questions, eulogy starters, and practical steps to help you honor your loved one with words that feel honest, human, and enough.

Eulogy Writing Prompts to Help You Write a Heartfelt Funeral Speech

How to Become a Grief Coach

If you feel called to support grieving people, this guide will help you understand what a grief coach does, how grief coaching differs from therapy, what training matters most, and how to become a grief coach in a way that is ethical, grounded, and genuinely helpful.

How to Become a Grief Coach

The Grief Beneath the Fireworks: Ambiguous Loss, Collective Grief, and the Fourth of July

If you are feeling off this Fourth of July, it may be grief. Collective grief. Ambiguous loss. The ache of loving something that no longer feels as simple as it

The Grief Beneath the Fireworks: Ambiguous Loss, Collective Grief, and the Fourth of July

How to Write a Grief Meditation Script

Writing a grief meditation script is not about sounding peaceful or perfect. It is about knowing the intention, choosing the right type of meditation, using trauma-sensitive language, and guiding people through a clear beginning, middle, and end.

How to Write a Grief Meditation Script

Step 7: Allowing Transformation When You Wonder, “Who Am I Now?”

Grief changes us in ways we never choose, but it can also reveal strengths, values, and possibilities we never expected. In this episode, Heather Stang and Amanda Palermo explore Step 7 of the Mindfulness & Grief System, Allowing Transformation, and discuss how healing isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about gently discovering who you are now while continuing to carry the love of the person you’ve lost.

Step 7: Allowing Transformation When You Wonder, “Who Am I Now?”

Grief Coaching vs. Therapy: What Professionals Need to Know

Grief coaching and therapy are often confused, but they are not the same. In this article, Heather Stang explains how each supports grieving people, when one may be a better fit than the other, and why training, scope, and grief-informed care matter.

Grief Coaching vs. Therapy: What Professionals Need to Know

How to Start a Grief Support Group

Starting a grief support group begins long before the first meeting. This guide will help you choose who the group is for, define what kind of loss it supports, create clear guidelines, and build a container where grieving people can feel understood, supported, and safe enough to share.

How to Start a Grief Support Group

Father’s Day Grief: A Guided Meditation To Nurture Your Continuing Bond

Whether your grief is fresh or decades old, Father’s Day can resurface emotions you weren’t expecting. This article helps you validate your feelings and find healthy ways to tend to your loss.

Father’s Day Grief: A Guided Meditation To Nurture Your Continuing Bond

5 Ways to Cope With Father’s Day Grief

Father’s Day can be one of the hardest days of the year after the death of your father. Whether this is your first Father’s Day without him or one of many, the holiday can bring up sadness, longing, gratitude, regret, and memories of the relationship you shared. In this article, Heather Stang explores why Father’s Day grief can feel so intense and offers five practical ways to care for yourself through the day. You’ll also find additional resources for complicated relationships, guilt and regret, and a guided Father’s Day meditation and journaling practice.

5 Ways to Cope With Father’s Day Grief

Tips To Cope With Father’s Day Grief When Your Relationship Was Difficult

Father’s Day can stir up a wave of emotions when your relationship with your dad was painful, distant, or unresolved. This article offers gentle guidance, journaling prompts, and self-care practices for anyone grieving a complex father figure.

Tips To Cope With Father’s Day Grief When Your Relationship Was Difficult

Managing Professional Grief in Healthcare and Hospice Teams

Managing professional grief in healthcare and hospice teams takes more than encouraging self-care. When organizations build in kindness, reflection, peer support, and recovery, the people doing this tender work are better able to care without losing themselves.

Managing Professional Grief in Healthcare and Hospice Teams

Walk the Talk: Self-Care for Grief and Death Care Professionals

Grief and death care professionals spend their days helping others pause, feel, breathe, remember, and make meaning. This article explores why you need your own grief practice too, not as another task on your list, but as an ethical and embodied way to stay human, grounded, and compassionate in the work.

Walk the Talk: Self-Care for Grief and Death Care Professionals

Coping With Cumulative Grief for Grief Counselors, Therapists, and Death Care Professionals

Grief professionals often carry the grief they witness at work alongside the grief they carry as human beings. This guide explores cumulative grief, bereavement overload, and simple rituals that help you mark what matters, reconnect with meaning, and stay grounded in the work.

Coping With Cumulative Grief for Grief Counselors, Therapists, and Death Care Professionals

How to Lead a Grief Support Group: 18 Tips for Bereavement Professionals

Learning how to run a grief group means understanding that feelings need space, structure, and support. A safe space to share matters, but without a clear container, people may leave feeling more overwhelmed than held. In this article, I share 17 practical tips for leading grief groups with compassion, boundaries, and care.

How to Lead a Grief Support Group: 18 Tips for Bereavement Professionals

Step 6: Continuing Bonds When the Relationship Doesn’t End

In this episode of the Mindfulness & Grief Podcast, Heather Stang and Amanda Palermo explore Step 6 of the Mindfulness & Grief System: Continuing Bonds. Together, they discuss how relationships continue after loss, why grief does not require letting go of love, and how meaningful connection can evolve over time. This conversation offers compassionate guidance for honoring the people we miss while continuing to live fully in the present.

Step 6: Continuing Bonds When the Relationship Doesn’t End

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