This free, heart-warming video will help you navigate your grief and find healthy ways to cope after the death of your mom.
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Print edition coming this fall
When your child dies, everything you once knew shatters, and you’re left with innumerable questions: How can I keep going? How can I face another morning, another family gathering, another ordinary task, when everything in me feels broken?
And if you have other children, you might be wondering how you can help them through their grief when you can barely help yourself?
The death of a child brings a kind of pain that can feel impossible to explain to anyone who hasn’t experienced it. Your heart may be overwhelmed by sorrow, anger, confusion, guilt, fear, numbness—and you may wonder whether what you’re feeling is normal.
Life After the Loss of Your Child: Hearing from Others Who Understand was created to meet you in this heartbroken place.
This book offers guidance, stories, and hard-earned wisdom from people who know this road—parents who have experienced the death of a child, grief recovery experts, and others who have walked closely with grieving families. Their voices will not take away your pain. But they can help you know you are not alone in it.
Grief is life-shattering and disorienting, but hearing from others who have walked this path before you can offer something steady to hold on to.
After the loss of a child, grief can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world.
People may love you deeply and still not know what to say. Some may say things that hurt. Others may avoid speaking your child’s name. You may feel pressure to be stronger, function better, or “move forward” before you are ready.
But inside, you may be wondering:
- Why do my emotions change so quickly?
- Why do I feel exhausted all the time?
- Why do ordinary moments suddenly undo me?
- How do I live with the memories, the questions, and the ache?
- How do I care for my other children when I am barely making it through the day?
- Where is God in this?
These are common questions in the aftermath of devastating loss, and they don't mean you are failing.
One of the gifts of hearing from others who understand is that their words can help you make sense of your own experience. Their stories can help you recognize, I’m not the only one. I’m not grieving the wrong way. I’m not losing my mind.
You are grieving because you love your child. And while your grief is deeply personal, you do not have to walk through it alone.
After the loss of your child, it can be hard to know how to keep going—or how to make sense of what you’re feeling.
Life After the Loss of Your Child: Hearing from others who understand is here with compassionate guidance from grieving parents, grief recovery experts, and others who know the pain and challenges along this road. Their wisdom can help you feel less alone, understand what’s common in grief, and find small steps toward stability in the storm.
The book is organized into three sections:
Broken
Understand what’s happening in your grief.
This section helps name the emotions, questions, and struggles many parents face after the death of a child: shock, anger, guilt, exhaustion, loneliness, spiritual questions, and sudden waves of sorrow. Hearing from others who understand can reassure you that you are not grieving “wrong.”
Your Story
Find support for your unique loss.
Every child and every loss is different. This section helps you find guidance that fits your story, including your child’s age, the circumstances of their death, and your family situation—helping you know you're not alone in the specific pain you carry.
Mending
Put the shattered pieces back together.
Mending does not mean forgetting your child or moving on. It means learning how to live with your grief one step at a time. This section offers practical help for grief ambushes, difficult dates, your child’s belongings, strained relationships, grieving siblings, and meaningful ways to honor your child’s memory.
Throughout the book, you’ll also find prayers for the moments when you don’t have words.
Free companion video for extra support
In addition to the book, GriefShare offers a free, supportive video from people who understand child loss and grief recovery experts who can help you navigate the road ahead. It offers another way to hear from voices who understand the sorrow, questions, and challenges that come after the death of a child.
Support for parents grieving the death of a child, including honest conversations about pain, faith, questions, and how to keep going.
Additional videos for caring for children who are grieving while you are grieving too:
Parenting Grieving Children
Parenting Grieving Teens
Available at www.griefshare.org/children.
You're not alone in your pain
Help is available. Hear from others who have walked this road of grief before and find ways to make it through.
Available now on
Kindle | Apple Books | Google Play
Print edition coming this fall
One of the most comforting gifts in deep grief is hearing from someone who does not flinch at your pain.
Someone who knows that child loss changes everything.
Someone who understands that certain days are unbearable.
Someone who has wrestled with questions, memories, guilt, anger, and longing.
Someone who can say, “I have been there too.”
For over 25 years, GriefShare has been providing the space and resources to help people find comfort, understanding, and hope after loss.
GriefShare is a Christ-centered ministry that offers:
- Trusted resources, like this book
- Support groups led by caring people
- Video teaching from grief experts and people who have experienced loss
- A place to process grief with others who understand
- Practical tools for facing life after someone you love has died
You are invited to find support in a GriefShare group near you.
After the death of your child, you may feel as if no one can truly understand. While no one can fully know your exact pain, you can be with people who will not rush you, shame you, or ask you to pretend.
A GriefShare group gives you space to talk, listen, cry, remember, and take small steps toward hope with others who are grieving too.
You are invited to find support in a GriefShare group near you.
Grief is life-shattering and disorienting, but hearing from others who have walked this path before you can offer something steady to hold on to.