Apps
Grief Refuge
"The Grief Refuge app is a daily companion to help navigate your grief journey. It provides comfort and solace in a time of need. With daily audio musings and a tool to track your grief progress, it helps you cope with loss and feel supported throughout the journey."
Download for free from the App Store or Google Play Store to get started.
GriefSteps for Parents
“GriefSteps for Parents is a free, easily accessible mobile and web-based resource with useful information and activities for bereaved families. The program is designed to help families understand grief and to build parents' confidence in effectively supporting their grieving children…..GriefSteps for Parents was created by the Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia University School of Social Work with funding support from the New York Life Foundation. Through the program you can connect with our team of grief specialists who are knowledgeable about grief in adults and children and can answer questions and respond to comments.”
Find it on the Apple app store here
Good Grief
Summary: "The Goodgrief App is the social network for loss. Finally there’s a network where grieving people can privately connect, chat, and support each other in finding a new normal. It’s available on iOS, Android and the web."
Grief Works
Summary: You're not alone, and you don’t have to feel this way forever. The Grief Works app was created to help you navigate your grief after the death of a loved one, soothe your pain and build your strength over time. While every experience of grief is unique and different, Grief Works includes guided advice from UK's leading grief expert Julia Samuel to help you find your "new normal." With Grief Works, you'll have at hand daily meditations, tools and reflections, plus in-the-moment support for managing difficult emotions whenever they arise.
Grief
“This app has been created by leading bereavement charity Child Bereavement UK and the bereaved young people we work with. It is for 11-25 year olds who have been bereaved of someone important to them. It can also be used by friends, teachers, parents and professionals who would like to know how to support bereaved young people… The app has information about bereavement, grief, feelings and how to help yourself. You can also read others’ stories and watch short films written and made by bereaved young people. The app links to the Child Bereavement UK website where you can use search facilities to find other support organisations near you… We hope our app helps bereaved young people to know that they are not alone and inspires others in how to support bereaved young people.”
Find it on the Apple app store here
Actively Moving Forward
“Download and get connected to a national network for the support and empowerment one may need after a death loss. Through this app, you'll be able to connect with others who understand the challenges of grief. Whether young adult, individual or professional supporting them, this is your gateway to the resources, tools, education and connections to help ensure a healthy post bereavement growth.”
Headspace
Summary: Inspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as "redefining mourning," this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offering comfort and community for coping with the mess of loss through candid original essays from a variety of voices, accompanied by gorgeous two-color illustrations and wry infographics.
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Calm
Summary: Inspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as "redefining mourning," this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offering comfort and community for coping with the mess of loss through candid original essays from a variety of voices, accompanied by gorgeous two-color illustrations and wry infographics.
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My Grief Angels
Summary: "A smartphone grief app with the objective of creating a global community, for people to be there for one another during their difficult times.
The non-profit developed app connects and supports people who have lost a loved one. There is a grief chat feature, which allows users to chat with other ‘grief angels’. The app also has a grief meetup feature which allows users the opportunity to create local events for other ‘grief angels’ to join. The Grief Support Network App is available on iPhone, Android, Amazon and HTML5."
Lilies
"A user-friendly mobile grief app for young people which gives virtual hugs. Developed by six school girls, the app provides a safe community to share thoughts and memories, as well as grief tips.
The Lilies project team have created something very special with this app. They did something very few people do — stopped and thought about those children and young people who have experienced the death of someone close to them.”
Apart of Me
Summary: "A mobile gaming app developed to provide children with strength and resilience when someone is dying or has died. Upon opening the app, its users are introduced to a peaceful island that is theirs to explore. As they discover the various different parts of the island, they can undertake quests and puzzles. These have been especially created to help children process their emotions and also help adult carers to begin and support difficult conversations with them."
Nino's Mourning Toolbox
Summary: "This mobile app invites children to answer death-related questions in a friendly and creative way. The activities encourage singing, drawing, inventing, speaking, thinking and listening as a means to better understand the death of a family member. The app is available for download on Android and iPhone."
Targeted for ages 4-12