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How to Cope With Grief While in Recovery
$2.25
Description
This 24-page booklet presents a practical guide for coping with grief while in recovery, helping readers navigate loss without compromising their healing journey. It addresses the unique and often overlooked challenges people in recovery face when grief threatens to destabilize their progress.
Designed specifically as grief support for people in recovery, this booklet emphasizes that you don’t have to walk the road alone. Recovery and grief both require connection, and this guide shows how to stay supported through both.
Inside, you’ll find peer-informed, lived-experience strategies for navigating grief while protecting your recovery:
- Strengthen Your Support System: Reach out to peers, sponsors, family, and friends. Recovery is built on community, and asking for help reinforces that foundation.
- Seek Peer and Professional Support: Join peer groups with others who are grieving, or connect one-on-one with a peer grief ally (PGA), recovery coach, or licensed therapist.
- Re-dedicate to Recovery Practices: If grief has disrupted your routine, gently return to meetings, mindfulness, exercise, and sleep. Local recovery centers can offer additional support and referrals.
- Express Your Grief: Talking through emotions—whether with others, aloud to your loved one, or through writing—can reduce emotional intensity and support regulation.
- Help Others While Healing: Volunteering or community outreach can provide a meaningful outlet for grief while reinforcing recovery.
- Establish Boundaries: It’s okay to avoid environments or events that may put your recovery at risk.
- Harm Reduction: If you are still using substances, strategies like using clean supplies, carrying naloxone, and staying connected to others are valid forms of self-care and safety.
Created through peer-informed, lived experience, this booklet offers tips for coping with grief while in recovery that are realistic, nonjudgmental, and grounded in both peer support and practical action.
Peer Support Community Partners (PSCP) is a national organization leading the charge to establish and sustain peer grief support as an effective field of practice integral to every community's response to grieving people after someone dies. These guides offer practical grief-related tips based on conversations with hundreds of bereaved individuals and community leaders. Whether you are bereaved, supporting someone who is bereaved, or are just a curious citizen, these guides are for you.
To view or download PDF versions of the guides, please visit www.
These guides are for informational and supportive purposes. They are not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice.
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