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How to Support a Grieving Family Member or Friend: 6 Principles
It’s common to feel anxious and intimidated in the “grief support” role. This is one of the reasons why otherwise caring people sometimes say hurtful, minimizing, or unhelpful things to their bereaved...
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8 Tips For Supporting A Grieving Friend This Holiday
Most people don’t intentionally set out to be unsupportive of their grieving family and friends. We know you may disagree, but let’s be generous and give people the benefit of the doubt. It is the...
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What they meant to say: Looking beyond hurtful comments in grief
I want to be upfront with you. This post is about giving the benefit of the doubt to people who have said the wrong thing(s) to you in your grief. I feel the need to preface this because I know many of...
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Trust Me As I Grieve
We continue this month with a little help from our grief-friends. Today we have a post from Laura Abbruzzese, a child development professional who lost her partner, Jeff Metz, suddenly at the age of...
View ArticleThe more we learn about grief, the less we know
Dear Readers, Some of you may have noticed, most of you probably didn’t, that we skipped our annual anniversary/state-of-the-blog/thanks-for-your-support/request-for-donations post in mid-December. We...
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Good Grief Support Isn’t Just a One Time Thing
Let’s have a conversation about grief support. Actually, scratch that, let’s not have a – as in singular – conversation about grief support. Instead, let’s begin an ongoing dialogue. This is part one...
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64 of the Worst Things Ever Said to a Griever
We recently asked our Facebook readers the following questions: “What is the best thing anyone has said to you in your grief?” and “What is the worst thing anyone has said to you in your grief?” As the...
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How To Help A Grieving Friend: Beyond The Basics
This isn’t our first post on how to support a friend who is grieving. It probably won’t be our last. But we have a specifc goal today. We want to provide a one-stop-‘Beyond the Basics’-shop for those...
View ArticleDating A Widow or Widower: FAQs
Valentine’s Day is this week. (If you’re looking for help coping with the day, we have some posts for you right here.) With this Hallmark holiday upon us, we’re going to address a topic that we have...
View ArticleTalking to Kids About Mass Tragedies and Other Events
I’m in my late 30’s which means I grew up pre-internet, at a time when it wasn’t unheard of to have only 3 or 4 television channels, and people still used things like newspapers, phonebooks, and maps....
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