Trust and transparency
How this guidance is created
How Compassion Navigator turns professional knowledge, lived experience, and reputable evidence into careful public guidance.
Who writes and reviews the content
What informs the work
Pages combine established grief and bereavement guidance, reputable public-health and professional sources, more than twenty years of work beside children and families, and lived experience after the sudden death of the founder’s young child. First-person insight is identified as perspective—not presented as universal evidence.
Specificity without pretending universality
Grief differs by person, relationship, culture, faith, circumstances, resources, and time. The site avoids fixed timelines, guarantees, stage-based prescriptions, and claims that one practice helps everyone.
Medical and mental-health boundaries
Educational content does not diagnose, treat, or replace medical or mental-health care. Concerning symptoms require qualified evaluation. Clinical terms are used carefully and linked to authoritative information when they materially affect the reader’s decisions.
Sources
Primary reference points include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Psychiatric Association, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Individual pages add more specific sources when a claim or decision benefits from them.
Corrections policy
Factual errors, broken links, misleading wording, and copy placed on the wrong topic page are corrected as quickly as practical. Material corrections update the review date. Readers can report a concern by emailing Compassion Navigator with the page title and the wording in question.
Commercial independence and affiliate links
Retail recommendations are chosen for relevance, not as clinical endorsements. Compassion Navigator participates in the Amazon Associates program and may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through Amazon links, at no additional cost to the reader. Affiliate status does not determine which products are recommended. External sellers control inventory, price, delivery, product safety, privacy, and returns.