Grief Nuggets

Coming out of thirty-five years of companioning people in almost every grief experience imaginable, I share these insights for your journey.

Will you agree with all of them? Perhaps not, but I encourage you to consider how they might be helpful to you in your particular grief narrative.

I owe much to the clients whom I counsel. They often use simple words or metaphors to express complicated thoughts, feelings or behaviours that they experience on their grief journey. This book shares many of their insights, directly or indirectly, from their lived experience.

Perhaps these nuggets will help you find your "grieving voice" through language that allows you to articulate your own reactions to loss, enabling you to share your experience with others.

Please don't rush through these nuggets. Sit with each one. Be open to how they speak to your situation. If you are comfortable doing so, take small steps to move forward.

Every twenty-one days you will be invited to reflect upon a Curious Question. This will give you an opportunity to journal about a given question.

So, go ahead - take your pen out and write. You may find yourself returning to your insights at a later date.

Rick Bergh

A grief resource you can use every day.

It's hard to digest a lot of information when you're grieving. So, Rick Bergh has compiled short "nuggets of wisdom" to companion you on your grief journey.

They're hopeful.

They're educational.

They're inspirational.

Using common sense and everyday language, Rick offers insights from his forty years of experience that will help you in your daily grief journey. These 365 nuggets will encourage you, not overwhelm you.

Rick Bergh (M.Div., CT, NT)

Rick is a grief counselor, end-of-life educator, speaker and ordained minister. You can listen to his popular podcast, It's All About the Story: Grief Stories That Connect Us, where he interviews people who have come through grief to the other side and discovered joy again.