My Top 25 Favorite Blogs About Grief And Loss To Follow Now

As a grief blogger, I spend a lot of time reading blogs about grief and loss. I’ve put together a list of my favorite grief and loss blogs for you to follow below.

I am honored to call many of the following writers my friends. There are other grief bloggers on this list I would love to connect with one day.

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Blogs about general grief and loss

Changing Perspectives with Jenni Brennan, LICSW

Jenni Brennan is a clinical social worker and counselor. She is the author of Confessions from the Couch: Finding Hope and Resilience in Grief.

Grief Speaks by Lisa Athan, MA

Lisa Athan is a grief counselor and the founder and director of Grief Speaks.

Lisa Appelo

Lisa Appelo suddenly lost her husband and the father of her seven children. She is the author of Life Can Be Good Again: Putting Your World Back Together After It All Falls Apart.

What’s Your Grief by Eleanor Haley, M.S., and Litsa Williams, MA, LCSW-C

Michele Deville

Michelle Deville lost her best friend to a car accident in high school, her father to alcoholism, her husband to a boating accident, and she also experienced several miscarriages.

Modern Loss by Rebecca Soffer

Rebecca Soffer lost both of her parents in her 30s.

Blogs about father loss

Grief & Grits: Nourishing Grieving Hearts by Randi Pearlman Wolfson

Randi Pearlman Wolfson lost her father when she was 10 years old. She is the author of Eddie’s Brave Journey: How One Little Elephant Learned All about Grief.

Meghan Rhiordan Jarvis, MA, LCSW

Meghan Jarvis lost her father to cancer and her mother unexpectedly. She is the author of Can Anyone Tell Me?: Essential Questions about Grief and Loss and End of the Hour: A Therapist’s Memoir.

Lauren Fortenberry

Lauren Fortenberry lost her father during COVID.

Natasha Smith: Sitting With You

Natasha Smith lost her father and two sisters. She is the author of Can You Just Sit with Me? and Black Woman Grief: A Guide to Hope and Wholeness.

Blogs about mother loss

Donna Ashworth Words

Donna Ashworth lost her mother to suicide. She is the author of The Right Words: When You Need Them Most and To the Women: Words to Live By.

Happiness, Hope, and Harsh Realities by Chelsea Ohlemiller

Chelsea Ohlemiller lost her mother to cancer in 2017. She is the author of Now That She’s Gone: A Daughter’s Reflections on Loss, Love, and a Mother’s Legacy.

Hope Edelman lost her mother to breast cancer when she was 17 and her father when she was 40. She is the author of seven books including The AfterGrief: How Losing a Mother Shapes the Parent You Become, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, Motherless Mothers: How Losing a Mother Shapes the Parent You Become, The Possibility of Everything: A Memoir, and Mother of My Mother: The Intricate Bond between Generations.

Blogs about spouse loss

Becky L McCoy

Becky lost her husband when she was 7 months pregnant.

John Polo

John Polo lost his wife, Michelle, to cancer in 2016. He is the author of Widowed, Widowed 2, and How to Date a Widow 101.

The Grief and Happiness Alliance by Emily Thiroux Threatt

Emily Thiroux Threatt lost two husbands, as well as her parents, sister, and aunts and uncles. She is the author of Loving and Living Your Way through Grief: A Comprehensive Guide to Reclaiming and Cultivating Joy and Carrying on in the Face of Loss.

One Fit Widow by Michelle Steinke-Baumgard

Michelle Steinke-Baumgard lost her husband in a small plane crash in 2009. She is the author of Healthy Healing: A Guide to Working out Grief Using the Power of Exercise and Endorphins.

Refuge in Grief by Megan Devine

Megan Devine lost her husband. She is the author of How to Carry What Can’t Be Fixed: A Journal for Grief and It’s OK that You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture that Doesn’t Understand.

Surviving Grief by Gary Sturgis

Gary Sturgis lost his husband to cancer. He is the author of Surviving: Finding Your Way from Grief to Healing and Surviving Grief: 365 Days a Year.

My Top 25 Favorite Blogs about Grief and Loss to Follow Now