WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER AS WE NAVIGATE SUCH UNPRECEDENTED TIMES - CONNECT & BE WELL
GRIEF & HEALING
Articles, Interviews & Blogs:
- From Loss to Love (Psychology Today, 2018)
- How to Live and Learn From Great Loss (The Guardian, 2017)
- Modern Loss: A new website hopes to open up the conversation about death and grief (Slate, November, 2013)
- Why Self-Compassion Beats Self-Confidence (New York Times, December 28, 2017)
- ‘Just Show Up’: Sheryl Sandberg On How To Help Someone Who’s Grieving (NPR, April 25, 2017, interview). Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant’s new book, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy (2017)
- Where Does Compassion Really Come From? (Happify Animation 2:44)
- Making SEL the DNA of a School, (Greater Good Science Center, April 17, 2017)
- How to Stay Empathetic Without Suffering So Much by Amy L. Eva (Greater Good Science Center, May 4, 2017
Books:
- Permission to Mourn (Tom Zuba, 2014)
- Healing the Hurt Spirit (Catherine Greenleaf, 2006)
- Pilgrimage Through Loss (Linda Lawrence Hunt, 2014)
- Stuff That Sucks: A Teen’s Guide to Accepting What You Can’t Change and Committing to What You Can (2017) by Ben Sedley. A short, easy read for parents, teens and anyone who sometimes struggles with being human.
- Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief (Joanne Cacciatore, 2017)
- It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand (Megan Devine, 2017)
- Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir (Jayson Greene, 2019)
- No Happy Endings: A Memoir (Nora McInerny, 2019)
- It's Okay to Laugh: (Crying Is Cool Too) (Nora McInerny, 2016)
- There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love (Dr. Kelsey Crowe & Emily McDowell, 2017)
- Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome. (Rebecca Soffer & Gabrielle Birkner, 2017)
Videos:
- Modern Loss: Candid Conversations About Grief (YouTube, March 6, 2018, 1:18 mins) "Modern Loss co-founders Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner will discuss how the isolation they experienced after losing parents as young adults inspired them to take a no-holds-barred approach to grief."
- We Don’t Move on From Death, We Move Forward With It (Nora McInerny, TEDTalk, 2018, 14:57 mins)
- Brene Brown on Empathy (Feeling With People) (2:53 min. animation)
- It's Not About the Nail (Vimeo, 1:41)
Podcasts, Interviews & Websites:
- Modern Loss A website for "Candid conversation about grief. Beginners welcome."
- When A Child Dies: Loss, Grief And Reclaiming Hope (1A Interview with Jayson Greene, NPR, 2019, 34 mins)
- Unlocking Us Podcast (David Kessler on loss and finding meaning, Brene Brown, 2020)
GROWTH
Articles, Interviews & Blogs:
- A New Research Center for the Study of Failure-The Value of Failing (The Atlantic, April 25, 2018)
- Why We Should Embrace Mistakes In School (Greater Good Science, November 28, 2017)
- How To Really Be the Change from Positively Positive
- I Made A Big Mistake, Now What? Teaching Children How to Handle Mistakes Well (Mindset Works blog)
(Hey Sigmund, September, 2017)
- Helping Teens Find Their Purpose (The Hechinger Report, January 3, 2018)
- How To Know You've Married the Wrong Person -Christine Carter has clearly married the wrong person again, or did she? (GGSC, April 3, 2018)
- The Top 10 Insights from "The Science of a Meaningful Life" in 2017 (Greater Good Science, December 27, 2017)
- How To Really Be the Change (Positively Positive, 2018)
- Pyramid of Success, Coach John Wooden (UCLA, John Wooden Official Site, 2017)
- Paul Wesselmann - The Ripples Guy
- 'The Gift of Failure' by Jessica Lahey (New York Times, August 18, 2015)
Stories to listen to:
- Total Failure: The Mountain That Got Away (NPR, 2016)
- Total Failure: When The Space Shuttle Didn't Come Home (NPR, 2016)
- Total Failure: How George Foreman's Losses Showed Him The Light (NPR, 2016)
- Total Failure: The World's Worst Video Game (NPR, 2016)
Books:
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Dweck, 2007)
Videos:
- Dr. Shefali Tsabary: The Awakened Self (SuperSoul Sunday, 2016)
- Tristan Harris: How better tech could protect us from distraction (TED Talk, 2014)
- Kelly McGonigal, Making Stress Your Friend (TED Talk, 2013)
- Sheryl Sandberg’s 2016 Commencement Speech to Cal graduates “Know that you have the ability to get through anything… We are more vulnerable than we ever thought, but we are stronger than we ever imagined.” (25:41, 2016)
- Donovan Livingston's 2016 Speech to Harvard Graduate School of Education Students 5:46 minutes of spoken word poetry bliss
- You've Got a Friend In Me by 4-year-old Claire Ryann and her dad. 2:26 minutes of sweetness.
- Tonight You Belong to Me by Benjamin Ames and his 4-year-old daughter. 3:11 minutes of pure joy.