Grief Coping Tools
- Create a safe and healing environment
- Take deep breaths
- Be in the moment fully
- Tell the story
- Acknowledge the loss
- Modified Routine Activities
- Postpone Major Decisions
- Light physical activity
- Good Nutrition
- Rest—Sleep
- Listen to your body
- Acknowledge your vulnerability and limitations
- Allow yourself time
- Acknowledge your process–allow others their own
- Nurture Yourself
- Journaling
- Dreamwork
- Artistic Expression
- Conscious Symbolism
- Reading–gathering information about grief
- Connecting with others—Empathic Persons
- Body Work
- Support Groups
- Professional Counseling
- Guided Imagery
- Rituals
- Unfinished Business–other issues of loss
- Turn grief into creative energy
Local Agencies with Grief Resources
- Pathways Hospice, Fort Collins, 970-663-3500
- 3 Hopeful Hearts-Child to 25, Fort Collins, 970-430-6136
- Alternatives to Violence, Loveland, 970-669-5150
- Friends of Friends, Loveland, 970-412-6212
- Grief Recovery after a Substance Passing (GRASP), 970-461-4857
- Grief Support of the Rockies, Fort Collins, 970-235-2076
- Heartbeat/Suicide, Loveland/Ft. Collins, 970-635-9301
- Pet Loss Support Group, Fort Collins, 970-217-7124
- Heartbeat/Suicid, Greeley, 970-978-8106 or 970-302-7096
- Community Grief Center, Greeley, 970-506-4114
- TRU-Community Care, Greeley, 970-352-8487
- American Association of Retired Person (AARP), 1-888-687-2277
free services to widows and widowers. Call to find a local support group. www.aarp.org/griefandloss