Process your grief, protect your mental health, and find moments of happiness with these 100 self-care activities specifically designed for difficult and distressing situations.

When faced with loss or trauma, the grief can oftentimes feel overwhelming. It can feel difficult, if not impossible, to focus your attention elsewhere. And yet, during hard times is the perfect time to look inwards for support and practice self-care. Tuning in to your personal needs and taking the time to create a thoughtful self-care practice can make all the difference in moving forward in a healthy way.

In Self-Care for Grief, you’ll find 100 self-care activities that are specifically designed to help you protect your mental health, even while grieving.

You’ll find useful activities like:

• Cooking to honor your loss
• Practicing saying “No”
• Naming your emotions
• And many more

No matter what the circumstances are, Self-Care for Grief has the activities you need to de-stress, stay calm, and even find moments of joy in the most challenging of times.

Many suicides are caused by biological mental illness, but sometimes the suicide rate of a particular group jumps—two-, three-, or even ten-fold—in a short time, behaving like an epidemic. Suicide epidemics unfold more slowly than microbial plagues like flu or malaria, but they happen far too quickly to result from genetic changes and affect far too many people to be explained away as spontaneous cases of brain injury.

These epidemics have occurred in America’s rustbelt towns, Russia’s cities, and indigenous communities from the Arctic to the Pacific Islands. They tend not to be associated with wars, poverty, or environmental disasters but with a rupture in the social environment so profound that people come to question their most intimate attachments. The mental pain that drives suicide has been likened to the flipside of love, but if so, how does love suddenly disappear—or seem to—from the lives of thousands of people at once? In Why Live, public health researcher Helen C. Epstein sets out to find the answer.

“Albert,” the neighbor said, “your mom needs you to come home.” That’s how it began for Albert Hsu when his father died. Anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide experiences tremendous shock and trauma. What follows is a confusing mix of emotions―anger, guilt, grief, and despair. Suicide raises heartrending questions: Why did this happen? Why didn’t we see it coming? Could we have done anything to prevent it? How can we go on? After his father’s death, Hsu wrestled with the intense emotional and theological questions surrounding suicide. While acknowledging that there are no easy answers, he draws on the resources of the Christian faith to point suicide survivors to the God who offers comfort in our grief and hope for the future. For those who have lost a loved one to suicide and for their counselors and pastors, this book is an essential companion for the journey toward healing. This revised edition incorporates updated statistics, has expanded resources for suicide prevention and mental health ministry, and now includes a discussion guide for suicide survivor groups.

In this hands-on, interactive workbook, children who have been exposed to a suicide can learn from other grieving kids. The workbook includes drawing activities, puzzles, stories, advice from other kids and helpful suggestions for how to navigate the grief process after a suicide death.

Over six short weeks in 2022, Betsy Thibaut Stephenson lost her son to suicide, mother-in-law to dementia, and family dog to cancer. Rather than succumb to grief’s darkness, Betsy chose to face her losses head-on, accepting grief as an uninvited yet permanent companion in her revised life.

Blackbird is a memoir composed in real time, a concise and brutally honest look at the emotional, physical, and spiritual impact of deep despair. By unflinchingly pulling back the curtain on fear and shame, Betsy’s story inspires important conversations about mental health, grief resilience, and creating a path toward healing.

Looking for LGBTQ+ Support and Community? Find Out How to Connect and Thrive

Feeling isolated, struggling with your identity, or exhausted from navigating systems that don’t affirm your LGBTQ+ experience? You’re not alone. Every day, countless LGBTQ+ individuals face these same hurdles, caught between societal norms and their unique identities. This transformative guide provides the tools, insights, and strategies to overcome these challenges, embrace your true self, and advocate for inclusive policies.

Inside, you’ll discover:

• Navigating complex systems such as healthcare, education, and legal environments with tips to help you get the support you deserve.
• Coping with mental health challenges using effective, proven strategies designed specifically for the LGBTQ+ community.
• Building resilience and self-confidence to handle rejection, discrimination, and other obstacles.
• Advocacy fundamentals to empower you to stand up for LGBTQ+ rights and drive meaningful policy changes.
• Creating inclusive environments in your everyday life, from workplaces to social settings, to foster a sense of belonging.
• Embracing intersectionality and understanding how different aspects of identity intersect to shape your experiences.
• Connecting with supportive communities both online and offline, ensuring you have a strong network to lean on.

Whether you’re working on self-acceptance, navigating mental health challenges, or looking to become a more active advocate, this guide is your essential resource.