We understand grief. We listen with compassion, and without judgement.
Griefline provides free counselling support to anyone experiencing grief, loss and the many related feelings that occur as a result. You are not alone.
Griefline is a free national helpline offering confidential telephone counselling 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We provide early intervention and prevention of mental health difficulties which may compound a person’s experience of grief and loss. Griefline is available nationally inclusive of remote, regional and rural communities, in addition to all metropolitan regions, Australia wide.
In addition to our helpline, the Griefline website is filled with practical information, tools and resources, as well as moderated forums to help you understand and navigate your experience with grief and loss.
Phone Counselling
It is free and confidential to speak with one of our trained and experienced volunteers. They are here for you and are ready to listen, without judgement, when you are ready to talk.
Our telephone counsellors are skilled and compassionate and will provide you with tools and coping strategies to support you during the healing of your grief and loss.
Call 1300 845 745
Online Forums
Seeking support but don’t want to speak to a telephone counsellor yet? Our online moderated forums, are an alternative to telephone counselling, and are a safe space to connect, give and receive support.
Griefline offers online moderated forums for people experiencing grief and loss, isolation and loneliness, along with dedicated forums for bushfire survivors and first responders. This creates the opportunity for anyone, in remote, rural, regional or metropolitan areas across Australia to share their experiences with each other.
Sign up here
Grief and Loss Resources
In addition to our free telephone counselling services and online forums, the GriefLine website is filled with evidence-based resources to help you understand and navigate your experience with grief and loss.
Our resource hub is a space for help-seekers to read stories and articles about the very real human experience that is grief and loss. It is a place to find tools and coping strategies, information and ideas, as well as events and organisations that are dedicated to supporting the community and individuals who are struggling with grief, loss, loneliness and isolation.
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When it comes to internal strengths there’s a veritable smorgasbord on offer, and we all possess every one of them, only in varying degrees.
The latest addition to our resource hub - 'Grief Recovery Part 1: In Search of Lost Strengths, refers to freely available tools for identifying your inner strengths including a downloadable worksheet.
View the worksheet preview by swiping ⬅️
Your strengths may be easy to identify or may go unnoticed because they are so familiar to you. 🧐💪🤷🏽♀️
Let us know how you go in the comments below ⬇️
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What do you do when you’re confronted by grief and loss and feel utterly incapable of facing it?
Whether it’s the death of someone close to you, or the loss of something special…loss comes in endless forms, and the ensuing grief is as unique as your fingerprint.
When it happens, you may find yourself thrown off-kilter… vulnerable to self-doubt, confusion, guilt. Unable to make sense of it all, to remember what you’re good at and what’s good in your world. And yet, these are the internal and external strengths that are often your greatest allies in grief recovery.
The latest addition to our Grief and Resource Hub “Grief Recovery: In Search of Lost Strengths”, has been created to help you better understand strengths: what they are, where to find them, why they help and how to get yours working for you.
Perhaps it’s time to rediscover your strengths - the resources unique to you and your unique grief journey.
A crash course in strengths-based grief recovery could get you started. Visit: https://griefline.org.au/resources/grief-recovery-search-lost-strengths
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If there is one thing that connects the Griefline team more than anything else, it is our collective curiosity in the universal experiences of being human.
We enjoy sharing with each other the art, literature and digital media that has piqued our interest and has helped us gain a better understanding or new insights into the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical characteristics of human life.
Researcher, professor and author Brené Brown shares this same curiosity and has dedicated her professional career to studying the emotions and experiences that bring meaning and purpose to our lives.
We are a fan of her podcast Unlocking Us and have just listened to a recent episode where she interviews Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce D. Perry about their new book "What Happened to You - Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing."
In the podcast they discuss the emotional, physical and social consequences of trauma and how shifting from asking "What's wrong with you?" to "What happened to you?" can allow us to better understand our pasts in order to clear a path to our future.
If this has sparked interest in you, we recommend you listen to the podcast here:
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-oprah-winfrey-and-dr-bruce-d-perry-on-trauma-resilience-and-healing/
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When experiencing grief, it is often difficult to know what to say or how to express your thoughts or feelings.
Collecting quotes, poems and essays that speak to us by connecting with our feelings and emotions can help us find meaning and comfort.
Like this quote by Ralph Waldo Emersen 🌹🌈☀️🙏
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Since going national one year ago, Griefline has helped people in every state of Australia. Now we'd like to make sure all Australians are aware of our free services.
That's why we're searching for Griefline help-seekers to share their stories for a new national awareness campaign.
If you have used our services to help get you through your grief and loss experience, and you believe sharing your experience, might help others find hope and healing through their own journey of grief and loss - we'd love to hear from you!
Have you called our helpline or used our online forums?
Have you participated in our Policeline counselling program?
If you have received support from any part of the Griefline organisation and would like to share your story, please contact louisa@griefline.org.au
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This month Griefline is exploring Recognising Strengths as part of grief recovery.
When we are experiencing grief and loss we might be in crisis mode. We often lose sight of our strengths and feel unable to cope. Yet by recognising and drawing on our strengths we can find hope, feel energised and improve our self-esteem and well-being.
Strengths can be found internally and externally.
Personal strengths are our unique natural capabilities and skills, while external strengths can include a supportive family, friends or workplace and spiritual resources include our beliefs, practices and community.
These are the resources that enable us to survive and even flourish no matter how tough life gets. When we utilise them we come to understand that we are resilient and start to make reasonable expectations of ourselves and of others during this difficult time.
During this month of June Griefline will explore the idea of recognising strengths to aid in grief recovery, we’ll provide ideas, inspiration and case studies. And if you’re looking for more insights on grief recovery check out the Griefline Resource Hub which is accessible 24 hours a day at https://griefline.org.au/resources/
You can also call our Griefline Helpline which is available 7 days a week, 6am to midnight on 1300 845 745.
Today and every day of the year, Griefline is here for you.
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