TOP 10 BEST GRIEF BLOGS
Grief can feel incredibly isolating. Even when surrounded by people who care, it can be difficult to explain what loss feels like or to find the words for what you are experiencing yourself.
Sometimes, reading the experiences of others can help.
The best grief blogs offer more than advice. They provide personal stories, thoughtful perspectives, practical grief resources, and reassurance that there is no single “right” way to grieve. Whether you are coping with the death of a parent, spouse, child, sibling, friend, or beloved pet, finding a voice that resonates with your experience can make you feel a little less alone.
Below, we’ve gathered some of the best grief blogs and online grief resources to turn to when you need understanding, connection, or simply a quiet place to read.
Why Grief Blogs Can Be Helpful
Grief is deeply personal. It can change from one day or even one hour to the next.
While professional grief counseling and support groups can be invaluable, grief blogs offer another kind of support: the opportunity to hear from people who have lived through loss and professionals who have spent years helping others navigate it.
Reading about grief may help you:
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Put difficult emotions into words
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Understand common grief experiences
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Feel less isolated after a loss
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Discover healthy ways to remember someone you love
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Find practical ideas for difficult days, anniversaries, and holidays
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Learn how to support a grieving friend or family member
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Connect with communities that understand loss
Most importantly, good grief resources recognize that healing does not mean forgetting. Love and memory can remain part of our lives even as grief changes over time.
1. What’s Your Grief
What’s Your Grief is one of the most comprehensive online resources devoted to grief and bereavement.
Created by mental health professionals Eleanor Haley and Litsa Williams, the site combines grief education with relatable, accessible writing. Its extensive library explores everything from the emotions associated with grief to relationships, coping strategies, anniversaries, pet loss, and supporting someone who is grieving.
The site also offers resources for grief professionals and people supporting grieving loved ones.
Best for: Practical grief education and understanding the many different ways grief can appear.
2. Refuge in Grief
Created by psychotherapist and author Megan Devine, Refuge in Grief approaches loss from an important perspective: grief is not a problem that needs to be fixed.
The writing is compassionate, validating, and particularly helpful for people who feel pressured to “move on” or find a positive lesson in their loss.
Devine is also the author of It’s OK That You’re Not OK, a widely recommended book about living with grief and supporting grieving people.
Best for: Anyone who needs permission to experience grief without trying to rush or fix it.
3. Modern Loss
Modern Loss describes itself as a place for candid conversations about grief—and that openness is exactly what makes it distinctive.
Through personal essays and practical resources, contributors explore what life after loss actually looks like. Topics range from relationships and family dynamics to digital memorials, identity, work, and the unexpected moments when grief resurfaces.
There is honesty here, but also humor and humanity.
Best for: Personal stories and candid conversations about the realities of life after loss.
4. Grief.com
Grief.com is the online home of grief and loss expert David Kessler.
Kessler's work explores grief, healing, and finding meaning after loss. The site offers articles, videos, educational resources, and support related to many aspects of bereavement.
For readers who want to better understand the emotional landscape of grief while learning from a recognized grief educator, it can be a helpful place to begin.
Best for: Grief education and exploring meaning after loss.
5. The Compassionate Friends
The death of a child creates a form of grief that can be especially difficult for others to understand.
The Compassionate Friends exists specifically to support families after the death of a child. Its resources serve bereaved parents as well as grandparents and siblings, with opportunities for community and connection alongside grief information.
For families experiencing child or sibling loss, finding others who understand the depth and complexity of that experience can be profoundly meaningful.
Best for: Parents, grandparents, and siblings grieving the death of a child or sibling.
6. Grief Healing
Grief Healing offers articles and reflections covering a broad range of bereavement experiences.
Its archive explores emotional responses to loss, coping, relationships, anniversaries, pet loss, and the many questions that can arise throughout grief.
Because grief changes over time, having a large collection of topics to return to can be particularly useful. An article that does not resonate today may speak directly to your experience months from now.
Best for: Exploring specific grief questions and experiences as they arise.
7. HealGrief
HealGrief provides grief resources designed to help people feel connected and supported after loss.
Its approach emphasizes community and remembrance, recognizing that maintaining a meaningful connection to someone who died can be an important part of grieving.
The organization also offers programs and resources for different audiences and experiences of loss.
Best for: Connection, remembrance, and finding grief-related community.
8. The Center for Loss & Life Transition
Center for Loss & Life Transition
Founded by grief counselor and educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt, the Center for Loss & Life Transition offers resources centered on compassionate mourning.
A particularly meaningful aspect of this work is its recognition that mourning deserves space and attention. Rather than treating grief as something to complete quickly, the resources encourage people to understand and honor their individual experiences.
Best for: Thoughtful grief education and understanding mourning as an ongoing process.
9. The Good Grief Trust
The Good Grief Trust brings together bereavement information and support resources with the goal of helping people find the assistance that is right for them.
Based in the United Kingdom, it can be particularly useful for readers looking for UK-specific bereavement organizations and services, while many of its broader grief resources can resonate regardless of location.
Best for: Finding additional bereavement resources, particularly in the UK.
10. Lee Alexander & Co. Journal
Here at Lee Alexander & Co., we believe remembrance can be part of how we continue carrying love forward.
Our Journal explores grief, memorialization, and meaningful ways to honor the people and pets who have shaped our lives. Topics include coping with pet loss, journaling through grief, supporting grieving family and friends, memorial ideas, and creating lasting connections through heirlooms and memorial jewelry.
Our goal is not to tell anyone how to grieve. Instead, we hope to offer thoughtful resources and ideas that help you honor a life, preserve a memory, and navigate loss in a way that feels personal to you.
Best for: Grief resources, remembrance ideas, pet loss support, and meaningful ways to memorialize a loved one.
How to Find the Right Grief Blog for You
There is no single grief resource that will resonate with everyone.
One person may find comfort in reading personal stories from people who have experienced a similar loss. Someone else may prefer practical information from grief professionals. Others may be looking specifically for resources about losing a spouse, parent, child, sibling, friend, or pet.
Give yourself permission to be selective.
If an article makes you feel understood, save it and return to it when you need it. If another person's perspective doesn't feel helpful, you don't have to force it to fit your experience.
Grief is personal. The support you choose can be personal, too.
Remembering Someone You Love
Finding grief support is one way of caring for yourself after a loss. Finding ways to remember the person you love can be another.
That might mean keeping photographs nearby, cooking their favorite meal, writing down stories you don't want to forget, creating a memorial garden, wearing something that belonged to them, or choosing a keepsake that holds a tangible connection to their memory.
There is no requirement to “move on” from someone who mattered.
Instead, many people discover ways to carry that relationship forward—differently, but meaningfully.
At Lee Alexander & Co., this belief is at the heart of what we create. Our memorial and cremation jewelry is designed to provide a beautiful, personal way to keep a loved one's memory close, transforming remembrance into something that can be carried with you through everyday life.
You Don't Have to Navigate Grief Alone
There is no timetable for grief and no universal roadmap for healing.
Some days you may want information. Other days you may want to hear someone else's story. And sometimes, you may simply need reassurance that whatever you are feeling is allowed.
We hope these grief blogs and resources give you somewhere to turn on those days.
And when you're ready, the Lee Alexander & Co. Journal is always here with more resources about grief, remembrance, memorial ideas, pet loss, and meaningful ways to honor the people and animals you will always carry with you.