Grief
Summary: Grief is a natural response to losing someone or something that’s important to us. Many factors influence how individuals experience and work through their grief. These free resources can help.
For individuals
Grief is an emotional response that can sometimes be overwhelming or unexpected. Loss and grief provide you with information about the grieving process, as well as possible emotional and physical symptoms you may experience as a result of loss.
Supporting someone who is grieving is no easy task. Not only do you need to be in the right mindset, but you should also be prepared to navigate a range of emotions. Before you engage in a supportive conversation, we recommend looking at these strategies, resources and guidelines.
Navigating emotional challenges like divorce, separation, or abuse can strain families, potentially leading to breakdowns. Family issues provides resources to help you support someone you know who is experiencing stress within their family.
For leaders
As a leader, being able to accommodate, support, and plan with employees who are healing from loss is important and sometimes challenging. Grief response for leaders offers strategies and resources to assist leaders in effectively responding to grieving employees.
Grief articles and resources
The list that follows includes the resources linked to above as well as related information that may be more specific to your current situation:
Learn about the responses to grief and ways you can cope after the death of a loved one or another significant loss.
Learn how to support your employees during loss and while at work. Effective strategies can help employees who are experiencing grief remain productive while they heal.
Questions and strategies to help you have a supportive conversation when someone you care about is grieving.
Resources to help cope with family issues such as divorce, separation, grief and loss that can result in family breakdown. Find out how to help both adults and children better manage stress.
These ideas may help you to create and implement a supportive policy for those who’ve experienced a loss. You’ll find resources about clarifying the details of leave and implementing the policy.
Trauma is a subjective experience for everyone. This is also true for the way we interact and respond to triggering situations after experiencing a traumatic event. On this page, you’ll find steps you can take to help manage trauma.
Loneliness is directly linked to health, life and work satisfaction outcomes. Learn strategies for addressing loneliness and building social connections.
Online support groups are available for a wide variety of mental or physical health issues. You don’t have to do this alone. Support related to mental health, chronic pain, eating disorders and more is available.