Grief Navigator · by Fuller

A grief toolkit
that tells the truth.

It never gets easier. It changes shape. And there are no shortcuts.

The Grief Navigator is a handbook and online toolkit for understanding what grief actually is — and some tools that may help you carry it. No stages to complete. No timeline to meet. No promise that it resolves if you do the work correctly.

Open the toolkit → What's inside

Handbook in development · Online toolkit available now · Hard copy via Lulu coming

This toolkit is not a substitute for professional support. If you are struggling, a counsellor, psychologist, grief therapist, or trusted mental health professional will always be the stronger option. This may work best alongside that kind of support, not instead of it. If you need to talk to someone now, see the resources page.

What it is

Written from inside grief, not above it.

Not a self-help book

The Navigator doesn't promise resolution. It doesn't offer a five-step process, because grief doesn't work like that. What it offers is honest company — and some tools that may help you carry what you're carrying.

Loss is not only death

Grief follows the end of relationships, the loss of a career, relocation, illness, estrangement, a version of yourself that's no longer there. This handbook is for all of it.

The online toolkit is private

Exercises save on your device only. No account. No data sent anywhere. What you write in the toolkit belongs to you, and it stays with you.

Built for professionals too

Counsellors can use any part of the toolkit in sessions or assign exercises between appointments — without clients needing the whole handbook at once.

What's inside

The toolkit, section by section.

Before Anything Else
What We Mean by Loss
On Feeling It Out Loud Exercise: Letting It Out, Safely
The Stages That Aren't Exercise: The What-If Spiral
More Than One at Once Exercise: Naming What It Stirs Exercise: Name What You're Carrying
Words We Borrowed Because We Had To
For Neurodivergent Minds
On Distraction (It's Not Cheating) Exercise: Distraction Adjacent
Exercise: Permission Slip
Exercise: Letters

Tools

The emotion wheels.

Two interactive emotion wheels — built to help name what you're feeling, especially when English doesn't have the right word. Both save privately on your device only and include printable worksheets.

Wheel of Emotion

Eight core emotions with nuance shades, named blends, and a borrowed-vocabulary outer ring. A good starting point for anyone coming to this fresh.

Open wheel →

Wheel of Emotion — Extended

The advanced version — expanded nuance shades, 18 borrowed words from multiple languages, a wider blend dictionary. For those who want to go deeper.

Open extended wheel →

A note on Part Three

Counsellor voices — coming.

The third part of the Navigator will be a collection of reflections from experienced grief counsellors — in their own words, on the subjects this handbook covers. Not advice authored for them; their own perspectives, offered for whoever finds them useful.

If you're a grief counsellor who'd like to contribute, we'd like to hear from you. Get in touch →