Archive for What to Say

Recently, going through some boxes that had moved with me, unopened, over several moves, I found a stack of cards.…

"Meet them where they're at" is a common (and sound) suggestion for how to support a grieving friend or family…

We get questions often about what to say to someone whose father died, what to say to someone whose mother…

I'll probably undermine your confidence in this article when I tell you; I'm not sure how to write about this…

People say and do the wrong things so often when we're grieving. It can be annoying at the best of…

Many phrases piss off grieving people, but perhaps none so much as "I know how you feel." Ask someone grieving…

"And when he came to the place where the wild things are  they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their…

People ask us this question time and again: What should I say to someone who's grieving? They ask, hoping there…

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…