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Learn About Childhood Grief

The Long Echo Project helps adult survivors, caregivers, and communities recognize childhood grief early enough to redirect a life. Explore by who you are, what you're seeing, or how old the child is.

Please Read Before You Continue

The Long Echo Project is not therapy, diagnosis, clinical care, or emergency support. Alan Austin speaks from lived experience, authorship, fatherhood, cultural understanding, and long-term reflection. This work may reference research and clinical perspectives where appropriate, but it does not replace licensed mental health care.

If you or someone you know is in immediate crisis or needs clinical support, please contact a licensed mental health professional, therapist, grief counselor, or call 911 or 988 (the national help line).

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Click a category to filter the articles below, or browse all articles at the bottom of this page.

Grief Language Glossary

Plain-language definitions for important grief terms.

Why Trust This Work

Alan's lived experience, methodology, and clinical boundaries.

The Long Echo Age-Based Guide to Childhood Grief

What grief may look like from early childhood through adulthood.

0–3

4–6

7–9

10–12

13–18

Adult Survivors

Free with newsletter signup. A printable guide to recognizing grief at each developmental stage.

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New articles are being added regularly. The full library will grow to cover every age range, loss type, and grief behavior.