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Wellness Guide for Mental Health and Healing: Grief

The UofL Depression Center provides a range of recorded talks from the "Building Hope" community presentation series, which took place during 2019-20. These talks are freely accessible to the public. The following videos are a recording of a presentation by Katherine Shear, MD, focusing on the topic of grief and loss.

 

Part 1

Part 2

Local Resources

Hosparus Health - Louisville

The Hosparus network offers a variety of grief counseling options for people of all ages dealing with various types of loss.

GRASP Louisville chapter: 

Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing provides unique support to those who've lost someone to substance abuse. 

Gilda's Club Kentuckiana:

This organization specifically offers help to those dealing with the grief of losing a loved one to cancer.

Books

cover Bereavement
cover Loving Someone Who Has Dementia
Being with Dying cover
cover Tear Soup
cover - The Myth of Closure
cover Sorrow's Profiles

Memoirs

cover Crying in H Mart
cover Comfort
cover H Is for Hawk
cover In a Dark Wood
cover The Unspeakable
cover The Year of Magical Thinking
cover A Grief Observed
cover Ghost Rider
cover When Breath Becomes Air
cover The End of Your Life Book Club