The purpose of this place is to share a bit if context that might be useful to you as you dive into understanding, trusting and using this guide. To be updated / improved!
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Before you go, here’s a reminder of a key characteristic of this space: when I started the resource guide, the summer of 2024 was sweltering and void, my mum had been dead for 1.5 years, grief was omnipresent; I was looking at my experience through the magnifying glass — fed by great books & co. along the way —, founded the Young Grief and Life Hangout in Vienna, and felt excited to share a bit of my mental grief map with the people around me. And so I kept adding to “Grief Resources for Fellow Grievers”: a word, an image, an understanding as it can only mature with depth or time. I did so as a griever who was caught up in all the pieces of the present moment when a future didn’t yet exist; and also as a curious learner, a passionate communicator, a trained coach. These days, my focus is elsewhere. However, I’ll keep growing the guide, here and there, in a labor of love and an echo of my continued journey of grief nestled into the atrocity and beauty of this world. The truth is, I need this place myself and there’s a lot to be found in here. Enjoy!
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DISCLAIMER
This resource guide is independent from any institution, social group or model. It will mostly appeal to those approaching grief with emotional presence; no belief systems are being examined in it. We are non-religious, science-based, committed to accuracy.
For transparency, key bodies of work and overarching perspectives that have influenced this guide include the following: the coaching mindset (more about coaching here, with a focus on trauma-informed life coaching) incl. a few coaching questions woven into these pages; best-practices in therapy, coaching and counseling — based on research, coaching expertise and experiences on the receiving end; the role and necessity of literary art or the art of finding accurate, universal words for deep human experiences; always: empathy and common sense ;)
Thus, the guide draws on expertise of human service practitioners — along with grievers, writers, artists etc. Here neuroscience coexists along with memoir-writing, and no discipline is any more crucial to understanding grief than the other. On a topic so existential and universal to the human condition, lived experience remains the key source of insight, expression and fuel for societal change — featuring key messages from stories of surviving and integrating grief, with its social and psychological and practical aspects.
All original texts are written by the author (Adriana Bascone). All content included from other sources is dutifully quoted (with quotation marks and a link in case of online-resources, with a book title and author’s name for books); I don’t own the rights to any of the sources in here, and only brief excerpts are stated. See more under the previous question on the topic of sharing this resource.
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