Grief Works: Self Care & Love
PSYT Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Grief Works: Self Care & Love is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by PSYT. Rated 4.7/5 from 584 ratings. Requires iOS 13.0.
- Rating
- 4.7
- 584 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 248 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Sep 29
- 2026 · v2.23
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About Grief Works: Self Care & Love
You're not alone, and you don’t have to feel this way forever. The Grief Works app was created to help you navigate your grief after the death of a loved one, soothe your pain and build your strength over time. While every experience of grief is unique and different, Grief Works includes guided advice from UK's leading grief expert Julia Samuel to help you find your "new normal." With Grief Works, you'll have at hand daily meditations, tools and reflections, plus in-the-moment support for managing difficult emotions whenever they arise. *BROUGHT TO YOU BY RENOWNED PSYCHOTHERAPIST JULIA SAMUEL* Grief Works was created in collaboration with Julia Samuel, MBE – a leading grief psychotherapist and bestselling author who, over 30 years, has supported hundreds of people through their grief, and is founder patron of Child Bereavement UK. *MORE AFFORDABLE THAN THERAPY, MORE EFFECTIVE THAN A BOOK* A complete 28-session compassionate course to help you navigate and cope with your grief. Guiding you step-by-step through understanding and expressing your emotions, PLUS proven tools and techniques to support you. 30+ interactive tools to give you instant support whenever you need, including: -Mindfulness, meditation, self-compassion and visualisation exercises -Daily gratitude and journaling to create a routine of supportive habits -Reflective exercises to help you process and manage your emotions -Visual breathing guides and body scans to calm your body and mind -Audio meditation practices recorded by Julia *24/7 SUPPORT* Includes practices to help you: * Process your sadness * Manage feelings of anger * Increase feelings of control * Work through feelings of guilt * Develop self-compassion and empathy * Calm your anxiety * Deal with milestone days e.g. birthdays and anniversaries * Build your self-esteem * Find meaning and purpose * Have honest conversations about death * Set helpful boundaries * Develop healthy routines * Tackle tricky thoughts * Connect with hope * Support others through grief And more... *ADVICE IN ACTION* This interactive app is based on lessons from Julia’s book, Grief Works, which reached the top ten of the Sunday Times bestsellers list, and contains tools to help you put the lessons into real life action. Helen Fielding described the book as “essential for anyone who has ever experienced grief, or wanted to comfort a bereaved friend”. Through the stories of real people’s experiences of love and loss, we’ve developed the advice, practices and interactive tools that you’ll be guided through in this app. Get inspiration and hope from those who have walked the path before you. *APPROVED BY THERAPISTS, LOVED BY USERS* “I’ve learned more about grief - both living and lost - from Julia Samuel than anyone, or anything, else. This generous, thoughtful and sensitively tendered app brings a wealth of information to help people navigate their individual grief.” - Pandora Sykes “It’s very reassuring to have that subtle nudge that what I am feeling is normal and ok.” Amanda Harvey “It makes you feel less alone.” - Danielle Le Pelley “Before using this I felt that I was pushing it aside because I didn’t know how to deal with it or process it...it has allowed me to look at the whole picture.” - Josie Wright “For the first time in 4 months feel like I’m starting a journey to rediscover me and manage my pain that has been so consuming since my husband died. It’s guilt free too!” - Claire "It’s a life saver." - 847jd "This app is really helping. Being able to reflect in my own time and at my own pace is just right." - the Osteopath's Widow TERMS OF USE https://www.psyt.co.uk/terms-and-conditions/
Ratings & reviews
4.7
584 ratings
What’s new
Version 2.23 · Updated September 29, 2026
Grief Works continues to support the bereaved to live and love again through thoughtful advice by grief expert Julia Samuel and a toolkit of interactive exercises to reach for whenever you need. This update includes bug updates and improvements to the user experience.
App privacy
The developer, PSYT, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Location: Coarse Location
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Location: Coarse Location
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- User Content: Other User Content, Customer Support
- Identifiers: User ID
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics
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