Suggested Reading
How To Help Support Those Who Have Lost a Loved One to Addiction
We understand the journey that you are on. We have compiled a list of books that our members have suggested. The selection of books might help one understand the complicated feelings and grief reactions to an overdose death. Included in the list are books that also offer comfort and hope.
Permission to Mourn: A New Way to Do Grief – Tom Zuba
From Heroin to Hope: Making Sense of the Loss of a Child – Marsha Wiggins
Understanding Your Grief after a Drug-Overdose Death (Words of Hope and Healing) – Alan Wolfelt
Welcome to the Tribe Sorry You’re With Us: Surviving the Traumatic Loss of a Child – SEK
Becoming Radiant: A New Way to Do Life Following the Death of a Beloved – Tom Zuba
The Voice of an Angel: A Mother’s guide to grief and how to thrive after the loss of a child – Marcy Stone
Only Gone from Your Sight: A Love Letter from Heaven – Kate McGahan, LMSW
Man’s Search for Meaning – Victor E. Frankl
Signs The Secret Language of the Universe – Laura Lynne Jackson
It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok – Megan Devine
Understanding Addiction: Know Science, No Stigma – Dr. Charles Smith and Dr. Jason Hunt
Grief Day By Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living with Loss – Jan Warner
Grief Diaries Surviving Loss by Overdose – Lynda Cheldelin Fell, Shannie Jenkins, Whitney O’Brien
The Grief Chronicles: With You in My Eyes Like Flaming Flowers: A Survivors Guide to Death by Overdose – Marie Minnich
Lukelove. My boy, My grief, My journal: Losing a child to opioids – Sheila Scott
Even if Your Heart Would Listen: Losing My Daughter to Heroin – Elise Schiller
My New Normal: A Mother’s Story of Love and Loss in the Opioid Epidemic – Charla Bocchicchino
Drinking, Drug Use, and Addiction in the Autism Community – Elizabeth Kunreuther and Ann Palmer
Letters to Kelsea: Life After Death – Tracy Lyn Lawler
Losing Jonathan – Robert and Linda Waxler
Tears to Ink – Fred di Marco
When a Child Dies From Drugs: Practical help for Parents in Bereavement – Pat and Russ Wittberger
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – Lori Gottlieb
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma – Bessel Van der Kolk
Healing after LossDaily Meditations – Martha Hickman
For the Love of Daniel – Ann Goffe
Understanding Guilt During Bereavement – Bob Baugher, PHD
Not in Vain: Mothers Share their Journey through their Child’s Life and Loss to the Drug Pandemic – Bobbie R. Ziemer
Of Grief, Garlic and Gratitude: Returning to Hope and Joy from a Shattered Life: Sam’s Story – Kris Francoeur
Letters to Matt – MaryBeth Cichocki, R.N.
Nature Heals: Reconciling Your Grief Through Engaging with the Natural World – Alan D. Wolfelt, PHD
Knock, Knock, It’s Me, Mom: The Awakening of my Spirituality After Losing An Only Child – Carol Cooper
Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child (Good Grief Series) – Gary Roe
Books Specifically for Children, Teens and Siblings:
The Healing Book: Facing the Death, and Celebrating the Life, of Someone You Love – Ellen Sabin
Someone I Love Died from a Drug Overdose – Melody Ray
The Invisible String – Patricia Karst
Healing the Adult Siblings Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Brother or Sister Dies – Alan Wolfelt
Straight Talk About Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love – Earl A. Grollman
Life After You: What Your Death From Drugs Leaves Behind – Linda Lajterman
Tear Soup – Pat Schwiebert and Chuck DeKlyen
Reactions: A workbook to help young people who are experiencing trauma and grief – Alison Salloum, BCSW
Something Scary Happened to Me: A workbook for children who have experienced trauma in their lives – Linda Rieger, PHD
How I Feel, A Coloring Book for Grieving Children – Alan D. Wolfelt, PHD
The Memory Book: A Grief Journal for Children and Families – Joanna Rowland (author) and Thea Baker (Illustrator)
Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas – Alan D. Wolfelt, PHD
Mailing Address
The Beading Hearts Overdose Loss Support Group
P.O. Box 724
Patchogue, NY 11772