Spiritual Support & Resources
Spiritual care plays a significant role in the well-being of patients and their loved ones. Our dedicated hospice chaplains have carefully curated spiritual resources to provide the guidance and support you may need during this challenging time.
Online Support
GriefShare
GriefShare’s parent ministry is Church Initiative. Church Initiative is a nondenominational, nonprofit ministry serving more than 20,000 churches worldwide. The ministry creates and publishes video-based curricula to help churches minister to people experiencing life crises. Use this resource to find locations near you that offer help and comfort.
Book Resources
A book by Kate J. Meyer. In one of the most helpful new Christian grief books, Kate Meyer, MDiv, LPC, blends up-to-date grief psychology, biblical accounts, and everyday stories to: Offer a way to acknowledge emotions, to take care of yourself just after a loss and for the long term and discuss the continued but changed bond many grievers experience when their loved one is gone.​
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A book by Fran Tilton Shelton. The Spirituality of Grief honors the complex nature of grief and offers simple comfort: we are not alone, and there is no one right way to grieve. Each chapter offers a spiritual practice, emerging from a variety of religious traditions, for those who remain.
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A book by Fran Tilton Shelton. This is the first-hand account of loving and living with Alzheimer’s. It shares the shock, disbelief, anger, pain, joy, humor, grief, and finally letting go. It is the story of trusting in God and living in the moment while being grateful for every day.​
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E-Book Resources
These booklets are designed to provide insight and helpful notes about grieving a loved one.
They also answer some of the most common questions about grief.
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Podcasts
Healing with David Kessler
Confronting grief can be messy, painful, and a lot of times, it can feel optional. Why provoke your deepest, wildest emotions — the ones that make you feel like you’ve lost control? In his very first episode, David sets the stage for why talking about grief is so vital. He opens up about his own tragic experiences with loss, and details the transformative encounters with psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross that led him deeper into this work. If you’re carrying grief with you, know this: There are no rules here. But there’s always hope.
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Facing Our Grief-All There is with Anderson Cooper
Grief doesn’t just go away, no matter how hard we may want it to. So how can we live with it and learn from it? These are the questions Anderson Cooper struggles to answer after the first season of All There Is ends. Anderson spends months playing more than 1000 unheard voicemail messages about grief from podcast listeners, and once again finds himself in his basement surrounded by boxes, full of letters, photos and objects that belonged to his late father, mother, and brother. He also talks with psychotherapist and author Francis Weller, whose book “The Wild Edge of Sorrow” gives him hope.
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