Best Blogs About Grief

The Best Blogs About Grief

Everyone has different coping styles and responses to grief and loss, and there is no right way to do so. The blogs on this list offer perspectives on the types of grief from a psychotherapist, an Elder Law attorney, and a beginner’s friendly guide to all the taboo topics you’re afraid to say aloud. Each of these blogs is insightful, with top-notch content for anyone in bereavement.

1. Debbie Augenthaler

At 36, after losing the husband she held in her arms after a sudden heart attack, psychotherapist Debbie Augenthaler faced almost insurmountable grief. Her life work and blog now focus on helping others heal through the familiar experience of life-altering loss, grief, and trauma. The content on her blog offers an approachable and safe place where grieving is welcome.

2. Modern Loss

This “beginner’s welcome” blog lifts the veil on taboo topics around grief and offers a place where all the messy feelings are allowed. With diverse and multifaceted blog posts like “Is There Sex After Death” and “He’s Dead, But He’s No Saint,” no topic is off-limits, and you will likely feel like you’re talking with a close friend about what’s really on your heart.

3. On the Way to Dying

The legal aspects of dealing with a loved one’s death can make the grieving process more difficult. Paul McCann offers blog posts that share both his own personal stories of dealing with death and his knowledge as an estate planner, probate litigator, and Elder Law attorney to help others through the legal process. The blog offers checklists and personal narratives that can help make the process just a little easier.

Best Blogs About Grief and Loss

Losing a child or a loved one in hospice care are just two of the many great losses that can be particularly difficult to cope with. Each blog on this list dives deep into these topics from lived experience. The topics covered include relatable stories by healthcare providers and a space for you to share your own story of loss.

4. Still Standing Magazine

Both losing a child and infertility are difficult issues for any woman to face, and Still Standing Magazine offers global stories of women dealing with both. From topics covering losing someone before they have passed due to dementia to losing a child, this blog takes on a wide range of experiences around grief and loss.

5. AfterTalk

People who are supporting a loved one in hospice care will particularly benefit from this blog as it offers support posts around this topic and loss in general. Lisa Bogatin and Larry Lynn began this blog after their own experiences laying a loved one to rest. Lynn, in particular, can speak firsthand to losing a loved one after a long battle with a fatal illness in hospice care. It’s a comforting blog that offers solace and insight into how others have faced similar challenges.

6. Grief Stories

Sometimes in grief, it is just helpful to know you aren’t alone. This blog offers touching and relatable stories from healthcare experts and guest writers about their experiences of loss and grief. The blog is a complement to a podcast that interviews people about the grief, loss and challenges they’ve faced after losing a loved one.

Best Blogs About Coping With Grief

While many will experience it, few know how to cope with grief. The shock and pain of bereavement can easily lead one into unhealthy patterns that offer a temporary fix, but ultimately leave one in more pain. The blogs in this list provide both tools for coping and spaces for people to cope with others.

7. Grief Mindfulness and Grief Institute Blog

If you or a loved one has experienced a loss it can be difficult to know where to begin to cope. The Grief Mindfulness blog dives into topics, guided meditations, and tips for how to connect with others through the grieving process. This is not a typical bereavement blog, but rather gives insight into healthy and simple ways to survive and manage your feelings after loss.

8. Confessions of a Funeral Director

Offering unique insight into death and how people deal with loss, Funeral Director Caleb Wilde shares what he’s learned in this honest blog. Wilde has helped countless clients mourn and bravely face their feelings around death, and in his blog, offers language to begin talking about loss and find the courage to face it. He also shares how he deals with this grief as well.

9. Open to Hope

Sometimes having someone to share your story with can help alleviate the isolation and loneliness that can come with grief. This blog shares the stories of readers across the globe and the varied ways each person copes with loss. It is a safe space to seek understanding in the stories of others.

Best Blogs About Grief for Women

There are challenges around grieving that relate particularly to women. Since women are more likely to seek out support than their male counterparts, blogs offer a particularly helpful space for women to seek out and accept support from reading and sometimes interacting with other women’s stories. The blogs below cover topics of widowhood, the unique grief of a mother losing her child, and support from other women’s experiences.

10. Hope For Widows Blog

Offering both a blog that serves as a support space for women only, Hope For Widows Blog, provides a space for widows to share their stories of loss, grief, and hope. The stories include honest tales of coping, solo parenting, healing and even dating after loss. Additionally, the non-profit organization behind the blog offers resources to women during this challenging time.

11. Grieving Mommy

Eighth grade English teacher and writer, Brooke Carlock, lost lost her father unexpectedly, her stepmother to suicide, and her beloved 10 year-old daughter, Libby, in a horrific car accident all in a 4-month timeframe. Dealing with the heaviness of this grief led her to study the ins and outs of grief, loss, trauma and resilience. Grieving Mommy offers gems from her years of personal research, experience and understanding of this tough topic.

12. The Sisterhood of Widows

When Mary Francis lost her husband, she sought out other widows to help her through her grieving process. She then wrote a book about the insights these widows shared with her called The Sisterhood of Widows. Now she has turned the support and knowledge she received into a blog with sharing this comfort in posts for other women going through their own grieving process.

Best Blogs About Grief for Men

An unfortunate fact is that in Western society, there are few spaces for healthy grief and sadness for men. Grief blogs for men are even few, but below are three of the top blogs that cater specifically to the needs of dads, widowers and all other forms of grief a man can experience. The best part is that each is written or run by a man who understands the distinctive grief process men experience due to their own familiarity with it.

13. Grieving Dads

Losing a child is painful for any parent, but often men aren’t equipped with the resources to cope with this pain. After losing 2 children, Kelly D. Farley’s grief spiraled into depression and PTSD. In his own healing journey, he recognized the lack of resources for grieving men and started his blog to fill this gap. His blog offers the insights he gleaned through his own grieving process and a space for other men to share their stories.

14. Widower’s Grief

After his wife’s death, Mark Liebenow hiked Yosemite to cope. He also wrote a book and started a blog about the “landscape of grief, nature and the wisdom of fools.” His blog covers wide-ranging and eclectic topics around grief including book reviews on the subject, artificial intelligence’s foray into bringing to life the voice of a dead loved one, and the feelings of depression and despair that can come with grieving someone so dear.

15. Men’s Grief Network Blog

This blog welcomes all male grievers including those grieving the loss of a parent, child, grandchild, and other loved ones. The goal of this blog is to connect men with the support and resources catered to their unique grieving needs. The blog posts cover topics from gender differences in grief written by professionals to how men can help each other through the grieving process.

Best Faith-Based Grief Blogs

Spirituality has been used to cope with grief since its inception and these blogs offer perspectives that cater to several major religious, philosophical and spiritual belief systems. Whether you’re Buddhist, Christian, Jewish or just spiritual, there is something for you in the blogs below

16. Death, Grief and Belief

This blog welcomes all faiths and seeks to understand the cross section between belief systems and bereavement in all of its helpfulness and pitfalls. It includes posts about the ways religions fail to address certain taboo aspects of grief and death and others on just how helpful religious beliefs can be to a grieving person. If you’re into exploring existential ideas, this blog is perfect for you.

17. Chasing Dragonflies

As a woman who experienced the sudden death of her daughter, the author of this blog sought solace in writing and God. While her blog isn’t faith-focused, it is infused with her belief system and the Christian foundation that helped her face the most challenging time of her life. Regardless of your religious beliefs, this blog has gems for anyone going through a similar struggle.

18. What’s Your Grief?

While not a religious blog, the content on What’s Your Grief does a great job of including topics related to spirituality, religion and many other grief-faith-related topics. It offers an all-inclusive space covering topics like grief, loss, identity, Jewish, Christian and Buddhist theories on the subject and more. There is also a space for readers to share their own stories of grief in a supportive space for all.

When to Consider Therapy for Grief

During your grief, it is wonderful to seek solace in blogs and other relatable content. They are great resources to supplement working with a therapist to begin to uncover and heal your pain. We offer a list of the best online therapy options and an online therapist directory so you can find the help you need. If you or a loved one is struggling with grief, please seek help from a professional.