Grief Worksheets

“Navigating the complexities of grief can feel overwhelming. These worksheets aim to shed light on your grieving process and equip you with tools to care for yourself in grief. We stand by you and hope these resources provide comfort and guidance”.

Dr Erin Hope Thompson MBE, Founder and Director of The Loss Foundation

Work on processing your grief with our carefully created bundle of worksheets – created by Clinical Psychologists from The Loss Foundation. These 13 supportive worksheets offer gentle guidance through your grieving process.

Explore exercises like “A Home for Grief” to create space for your grief, “Healing Goals” to focus on processing your loss, and “Treasured Memories” to celebrate your loved one. Each worksheet, from “The Grief Wave” to “Understanding My Loss”, helps you navigate your emotions.

Available on a ‘Donate What You Can’ basis, whether you donate nothing or something, our aim is to support you. If you do donate, you’ll also enable someone else to attend an Online Support Group meeting (thank you).

13 Grief Worksheets

• A Home for Grief – An exercise to create a mental space dedicated to processing and honouring grief after a loss.
• Coping Tools – An exercise to reflect on your current coping tools and circles of support to cope with grief-related emotions.
• Dual Model of Grief – An exploration of the two-track process of grief, encompassing both loss-oriented and restoration-oriented coping mechanisms.
• Exploring Your Identity After Loss – A guided journey to navigate and understand changes in personal identity following a significant loss, helping you in the self-discovery that often accompanies grief.
• Healing Goals – Establishing specific and personalised objectives focused on healing amid grief.
• Letters to Your Loved One – A therapeutic exercise involving writing letters to you loved one as a way of processing emotions and expressing feelings.
• Taking it Day by Day – Encouragement and guidance on navigating grief by focusing on small steps and daily coping strategies rather than focusing on the overwhelming momentousness of the whole grieving process.
• The Ball of Grief – An exercise to reflect on and explore the overwhelming emotions of grief by imagining them as a tangible object.
• The Box + Ball – A metaphorical representation to help you visualise the process of grief as a box and a ball.
• The Grief Wave – Understanding and navigating the unpredictable nature of grief emotions, visualising grief as a wave that comes and goes.
• The Jar Model – An exercise to illustrate how grief might remain the same size, but that the world around it (the jar) can grow with time.
• Treasured Memories – An exercise designed to recall and cherish memories of your loved one, supporting your healing process through remembrance.
• Understanding My Loss – A reflective worksheet to delve into the multifaceted aspects and impacts of the loss experienced, facilitating a deeper understanding of the grief process.

1. 1-Minute Meditation: Start your meditation journey with a brief pause, ideal for busy schedules.
2. 2-Minute Meditation: Step away from chaos, dedicating two minutes to reconnect and find peace within.
3. Mindful Breathing Short (6 minutes): A beginner-friendly guide to mindful breathing for calm awareness.
4. Lower Belly Meditation (9 minutes): Practice focusing consciousness away from the mind and heart, centring within the belly.
5. Compassionate Hand Exercise (5 minutes): Use mindfulness and self-compassion to promote relaxation and care.
6. Soften Soothe Allow Meditation (13 minutes): Cultivate self-compassion and emotional resilience through this practice.
7. Compassionate Image Exercise (5 minutes): Generate warmth and kindness towards yourself by visualizing compassion.