How to help a grieving friend and know what to say to comfort them.
Offering words of sympathy for the loss of a wife is overwhelming for most people. Words are not enough in this situation, but some comforting token can help a grieving person know they are not alone in their pain. By expressing our sympathies we may help ease their pain and reminding them that the burden …
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Anticipatory Grief is the feeling many people experience before they lose a loved one. It can be overlooked or minimized because it’s too soon for us to feel this way, right? Many people believe that death is a sudden event, but in reality it’s often a long process. When someone is terminally ill or seriously …
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Knowing how to be supportive when someone close to you has cancer doesn’t just come naturally to most people. Here’s some ideas and resources that can make a big difference. Offering Support to Someone With Cancer It’s completely natural to want to distance yourself from someone when they are going through something difficult. This is …
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This article will show you not only what to avoid when talking with a woman who has had a miscarriage, but it will also show you the one type of message that is helpful. I began thinking about how to express sympathy for miscarriage several years ago when my friend miscarried. We were pregnant around …
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Guest post by Janelle Shantz Hertzler (author of Seasons of Solace) After my husband was killed by a drunk driver, several of my aunts provided time, supplies, and expertise in the area of scrapbooking. Now that I am five years beyond my husband’s death and have worked on graduate studies in the area of trauma …
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