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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

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P.O. Box 724
Patchogue, NY 11772

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