
Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Conversation with Merissa Nathan Gerson
How to Survive the End of the World
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How to Be the Grief Support
i think that the thing people don't even when you don't know yourself. If you are mourning deeply one day and some one asks you to be their grief support, nicely say no. Offer an alternate option. Give them a sense that there's more support coming. They don't need too much infot, just a sign that you are there,. That they aren't alone in this blustery world. And i think that we want to centralize the griever and centralize that person, and start to pay attention to what we're afraid of before we walk into the room. Bcause we are all full of fear.
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