GRIEVERS LIBRARY

Description

The anguish of grief is often dismissed, isolated, and misunderstood by our "get-over-it-already" culture. Yet grief can persist for a lifetime and grievers need compassion and meaningful resources to find their way to healing and renewal, hence our goal at Grievers Library is to provide free books for comfort, information, inspiration--and hope!

At the Grievers Library, we provide free biblio-therapy for grievers through 1) book boxes in the Seattle area, stocked with free grief books for children, teens + adults; 2) global - different categories of grief books hyper-linked to a worldwide database of public libraries; 3) EZreads - short excerpts from grief books, blogs and research articles. We also provide free grief books at conferences for the bereaved, grief support groups, suicide walks and senior centers, as well as give public talks on the topic of grief. The Grievers Library is 100% volunteer-run and supported through the gifts and talents of many compassionate businesses and volunteers. In addition, our organization provides free grief books to King County’s Crisis Connections plus community officers at the Seattle Police Department to support local citizens dealing with traumatic loss from suicide or homicide.