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How NOT to Help Someone Through the Grieving Process

Over the next 6 weeks, I will be posting tips about How NOT to Help Someone Through the Grieving Process.

Every day, as I walk through this process with families, I notice things that are helpful for them and things that are not! NO ONE intends to make loss harder for someone, but so often they do.

Going to a funeral can sometimes breed uncomfortable feelings. It is hard to know how to respond to death and loss, so when it becomes your turn to offer words of comfort to the family there is a tendency to blurt out whatever you have heard other people say. Unfortunately, other people dont necessarily know what to say either.

This series of blog posts and info-graphics, is meant to help us all be more intentional about how we respond to death and loss. If we can change our negative habits into favorable ones, we will not only eliminate our own feelings of awkwardness, but help families who have experienced a loss heal in the best possible way. 

Be looking for these posts, because every grieving person needs a rock, someone to lean on in this hard time, and that rock could be you.

Resources:

https://beremembered.com/idea-center/article/things-not-do-helping-person-through-grieving-process

http://www.leannepenny.com/2013/12/03/12-grief-cliches-and-the-reasons-they-suck/

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