Grief And Loss
How Do You Deal with Emotional Pain

This worksheet is designed to help people build resiliency by understanding how they react to emotional pain. (0421, resiliency, awareness, self-perception)

Talking About What Happened

This worksheet can help people organize their thoughts when talking about an upsetting situation or event. (0321, abuse, self-disclosure)

What Did You Learn About Grieving From Your Family?

This worksheet asks people to think about losses they experienced when they were children and evaluate the lessons they learned from their family. The worksheet emphasizes that as adults people have choices about how they deal with loss and should try to do this that are most helpful to the grieving process. (0221, grief, grieving, loss, death, mourning)

Remembering a Lost Loved One

This worksheet is designed to help people dealing with a loss find positive ways to remember the people they lost. (grief, mourning, 0120)

Pausing During a Distressing Situation: The REST Technique

This worksheet helps people deal with overwhelming emotions by using the REST technique (relax, evaluate, set an intention, take action). It is designed to help people regain control over their emotions. (DBT, emotional regulation, 1119)

See the Big Picture

This worksheet is designed to help people regulate emotions by seeing the big picture rather than on just focusing on the negative aspects of a situation. The exercise is designed to help people evaluate problems accurately and objectively. (DBT, emotional regulation, 1019)

Practicing Radical Acceptance

This worksheet, derived from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), is designed to help people accept the reality of difficult situations that cause overwhelming emotions. The technique asks people to stay in the present and be self-aware, rather than trying to avoid emotions, blame others, and so on. (grief, bipolar, depression, addiction, 1019)

Relying on Your Problem-Solving Ability Even When You Feel Hopeless

This worksheet is designed to stimulate coping mechanisms in people who feel hopeless, even to the point of being suicidal. The intention of the worksheet is to encourage people to develop a problem-solving attitude. The worksheet asks people to try out five popular problem-solving strategies and then see how often they can be used on a day-to-day basis. (problem-solving, executive functioning skills, coping skills, suicide, depression, 0919)

Practicing Self-Compassion While You Grieve

This worksheet teaches people mindful self-compassion as a way to less their suffering while they grieve. (death, mourning, grief, loss, healing, 0819)

Accepting Your Feelings When You Grieve

To identify the common feelings that accompany grief and to learn strategies to accept them. (healing, mourning, loss, death, 0719)