Online Resources

Having the right materials to help navigate your path of loss is significant.

The following are books that I HIGHLY recommend as you embrace and process this time in your life.

I utilize all of these important materials in my sessions to help guide you through your unique grieving experience.

  • The Grief Recovery Handbook

    Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on the capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories as well as from others', the authors illustrate how it is possible to recover from grief and regain energy and spontaneity.

  • When Children Grieve

    To watch a child grieve and not know what to do is a profoundly difficult experience for parents, teachers, and caregivers. Yet, there are guidelines for helping children develop a lifelong, healthy response to loss.

  • Grief recovery handbook for pet loss

    Grief Recovery Handbook for Pet Loss

    Your relationship with your pet is special—it’s a bond that is very different than those that human beings share with each other. Learn how to best navigate this specific type of grief.

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    Moving on from Grief

    Demonstrating revolutionary ideas that have worked for thousands of their clients at the Grief Recovery Institute, Friedman and James give readers the strategies they need to effectively mourn the loss of the relationship, while opening themselves up to love in the future.

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Please enjoy the following ebooks free of charge.

What you are going through is very difficult and I want to give you these resources with the hope that you will feel validated and supported.

The Grief Recovery Method® is an educational program that provides specific tools on how to recover from any type of loss. The quote "time heals all wounds"  is incorrect and often compounds the emotional pain.  What matters is what you do with that time.

It is never too soon to start healing your broken heart! I want to help and walk with you on your path to healing and recovery. Good news... this program will get you back to the life YOU were created to live! Reach out to me to start your healing journey today.

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Coping With the Loss of Your Dog

with Crystal Givens, Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist

Mental Well-Being with Crystal Givens

Watch Crystal’s interview with Donna Carlson to hear more about her story of growing up a country girl on a farm in Illinois, to the life-changing experience later in her life that revealed her life's work in grief recovery.

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Dealing with Pet Loss

Podcast episode with Khronology

Meet Grief Recovery Specialist, Crystal

Alanna Levenson has a conversation with Crystal Givens. She went to the Grief Recovery Institute and was trained as a Grief Recovery Specialist 17 years ago and shares with us today!

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