Resilient Grieving: A Podcast and Book for the Grieving Parent
When grieving the death of a child it can be overwhelming to traverse the tremendous feelings of grief. Lucy Hone’s book and the Hidden Brain podcast featuring Dr. Hone, explore her learned and researched coping techniques after the tragic death of her daughter in 2014. We recommend these two resources to any families looking for tools to cope with grief.
Podcast: In this Hidden Brain podcast episode, Shankar Vedantam interviews resilience researcher and author, Lucy Hone, about our innate ability to cope with traumatic grief. Lucy Hone began to question how we think about grief after her 12-year-old daughter was killed in a car accident. Her experience didn’t follow the five-stages-of-grief model, so she took to researching and developing a path of resilient grieving. You can listen to the podcast on the Hidden Brain website or an iPhone.
Book: Dr Lucy Hone’s book, Resilient Grieving: How to Find Your Way Through a Devastating Loss**, offers a roadmap to move through grief — by becoming more engaged with our lives, and discovering new, profound meaning. With a master’s degree in applied positive psychology specializing in resilience and wellbeing, Dr. Hone’s book is rooted in evidence-based research on how move through the grieving process as best you can. As stated by Lucy Hone,
“This book is less about what you might experience and more about what you might do to enable the process of healthy grieving”.
A glimpse into Dr. Hone’s framework includes these six strategies for coping in the immediate aftermath:
- There are no rules – do what you need
- Choose where you focus your attention
- Take your time
- Feel the pain
- Beware of the grief “ambush”
- Reestablish routines
Beyond this chapter you will find practical approaches to exhaustion, depression, relationships, rituals, resilient thinking habits, and facing the future. Resilient Grieving offers a “jigsaw puzzle” of strategies to support you in becoming a proactive participant in your grieving process. You can order Dr. Lucy Hone’s book on Bookshop.org, Amazon, or go to your local bookstore.
For more resources visit Dr. Lucy Hone’s website Coping With Loss and join the Coping With Loss Facebook community.
As you explore these resources, please remember that you are not alone. Reach out to Eluna’s Resource Center for a personalized set of local resources to support you and your loved ones during this time.
**Eluna is an affiliate of Bookshop.org and a percentage of your purchase will generate a commission to directly support The Eluna Resource Center.
