Category: How to Help
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Words about Grief: Fact Checking Edition
How helpful are pithy statements addressing grief? When you lose your spouse, you will be showered with all sorts of advice and supposedly comforting words. Some statements will profoundly resonate, others will feel irrelevant or dismissive, and there will occasionally be a time when you want to say to someone, “Please just shut up. You’re… Read more
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Our Culture of Celebratory Excess
I woke up at 6 am this morning with a profound realization. We spend way more time, energy and money investing in life’s happiest moments than helping people through their darkest days. And that needs to change. American culture loves to spend money extravagantly on the happiest moments in a person’s life. Bachelorette parties to… Read more