I am so sorry for your loss. There are no words to convey my sincere condolences during this difficult time. Please know that you are not alone, even though it may sometimes feel like it.

Below are some tools and videos that you can use to help understand what you are going through and how to cope with it. (These tools work for adults too.)

Be sure and reach out to a loving family member or a trusted adult when you are ready or need to talk about what you are feeling. Opening up to someone who has been through what you are going through (or close to it) can help give you peace and calm, even if all they can do is simply listen and empathize.

You are in my thoughts,

Ms. Von Berckefeldt (Ms. V)

School Counselor

Calming tools you can use when you are feeling strong or intense emotions [videos]:

• Meditation for Kids: Grief and Coping with Loss
  
• Meditation for Teens: Grief and Coping with Loss
• Sleep Meditation for Kids | Stargazing Meditation | Relaxing mindfulness visualization
  
• Sleep Meditation for Kids | Body Scan
  
• Butterfly Hug
• Trauma for Teens and Kids
• Guided Imagery

Explaining Grief and Loss (K-6th):

• Explaining Grief to Children (K-2nd) [video]
• Teen Titans Go! | 5 Stages of Grief (3rd-5th) [video]
• Explaining Grief and Loss AND How To Cope (5th-12th) [video]

Click here for activities, videos and more to help families in grief.

The Dougy Center provides links to activities you can do to help cope with the grief you may be feeling after someone close to you dies:

• Dear---A letter to my person
• My person's name poem
• Ways to remember
• I Wonder. I Wish. I Hope
• What do you do with a feeling?

Click here to access The Dougy Center for Kids

Ms. Von Berckefeldt (Ms. V)

Contact hours: 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mon-Fri

(during student instructional days)

(209) 565-0179

Brown Elementary School

© 2021-2023 Julie Von Berckefeldt

Email: jvonberckefeldt@turlock.k12.ca.us
Website: https://sites.google.com/turlock.k12.ca.us/brownschoolcounseling/home
Location: 1400 Georgetown Avenue, Turlock, CA, USA
Phone: 209 226-6800

If you are experiencing a mental health emergency, please contact 1-209-558-4600, National Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (en espanol 1-800-628-9454), text "Hello" to the Crisis Hotline 741741, call 911, or go to the nearest emergency room / hospital.

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