My House

This toolkit was designed to help family members manage with grief resulting from the death of a close loved one. Although the materials were developed to specifically support bereaved military family members, the content is relevant to anyone who has suffered the death of a family member.

The toolkit is modeled as a house that includes 8 rooms or spaces, each of which is related to a different theme relevant to grief adaptation. Hover over each room and click on the icon to explore each room’s content. For example, the front porch is a space that focuses on content related to maintaining boundaries around privacy, protection, and physical safety. The bedroom includes content that focuses on emotional well-being after a loss, managing grief, understanding the difference between acute grief, adaptive grief, and prolonged grief disorder. It also touches on other challenging topics, such as understanding and dealing with suicidal thoughts, and how to get assistance if and when an emotional crisis occurs. 

Please take the opportunity to explore all the spaces in the house. Some rooms may feel more relevant to you than others, and some spaces may become important to you at different times as you move forward with your grief. This toolkit is designed to help you take good care of yourself as you are faced with the many challenges that grief poses to all of us.