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Grief comes in many forms—whether it’s losing a loved one, facing a breakup, job loss, or an unfulfilled dream. Sorry For Your Loss (Cards) is here to support you through it all. Join our community today by signing up for our mailing list and connect with others who understand the journey of healing. Let’s navigate grief together. Sign-up for our newsletter.

IG Live: A Mental Health Break with Camila Crews & Sakita Holley

Our founder, @camilacrews and #houseofsuccesspr founder & CEO

@itssakita are having a much needed conversation about how they cope with grief.

In May, Sakita candidly shared why she turned to medication as a part of her healing journey.

Please note: They are not medical professionals. They’re simply providing a space to have a conversation about their personal experiences.

Join us on Tuesday, June 18th at 10:30 am PT/ 1:30 pm ET for a Mental Health Break!

Coping with Grief

  • Embrace Your Feelings – Whether it's positive or negative, allow yourself to feel your feelings. You may be able to cope better if you seek the help of a therapist. A great resource for finding Black culturally competent therapists is Therapy for Black Girls. 

  • Move Your Body – Dopamine, our body's happiness hormone, can be stimulated by something as simple as a walk around the block. Yoga and pilates or even something as simple as walking are all great ways to get your body moving.

  • Feel the Sun – The sunrays on your face will help boost your mood even if you don't have much time to spend outside. 

  • Honor Your Loved One / Honor Your Grief – look at a photo and recall your favorite memory. Sometimes facing the very thing you’re trying to avoid helps 

  • Let it out! – Whether it's writing in a journal or screaming at the top of your lungs. It is possible to feel immediate relief by releasing suppressed emotions.

Books That Have Helped Us Navigate Grief

Sally Douglas and Imogen Carn met after the sudden deaths of their mothers only months apart. Struck by the lack of resources that spoke about grief in an honest yet uplifting way, they launched the podcast Good Mourning, quickly attracting a following with their fresh take and authentic experience. One million downloads later, the podcast has become one of the largest grief support communities on Instagram, connecting more than 100K people eager to have honest conversations about life and loss.

Good Mourning is a compassionate survival guide for anyone dealing with grief, including:

  • Real talk about the many ways grief impacts our lives (hello ugly crying, exhaustion and “grief brain”)

  • How to cope with changes in relationships, whether friendships, partners or family members

  • Tips on navigating isolation and loneliness, grief at work, holidays and milestones, and much more

  • Expert advice from clinical psychologist Tamara Cavenett

  • Warm words and insights from hundreds of fellow grievers

Whether you're one month in or ten years down the track, Good Mourning will help you make sense of life after loss — and know that you're not alone.

In ten concise chapters, you'll learn powerful ways to meet life's challenges with wisdom, resilience, and ease.

We all go through times when it feels like the ground is being pulled out from under us. What we relied on as steady and solid may change or even appear to vanish. In this era of global disruption, threats to our individual, social, and planetary safety abound, and at times life can feel overwhelming. Not only are loss and separation painful, but even positive changes can cause great stress.

Yet life is full of change: birth, death, marriage, divorce; a new relationship; losing or starting a job; beginning a new phase in life or ending one. Change is stressful, even when it is much desired or anticipated—the unknown can feel scary and threatening. In We Were Made for These Times, the extraordinary mindfulness teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo imparts accessible advice on navigating difficult times of transition, drawing on Buddhist teachings on impermanence to help you establish equanimity and resilience.

Each chapter in We Were Made for These Times holds an essential teaching and meditation, unfolding a step-by-step process to nurture deeper freedom and stability in daily life. Time-honored teachings will help you develop ease, presence, and self-compassion, supporting you to release the fear and doubt that hold you back.