How to Comfort Someone in Grief
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Ten Out of the Box “Happies”
People struggle with what to give someone who is grieving or going through a tough time. I have compiled 10 great out of the box “happies” that hopefully will help you the next time you are struggling with what to give someone to let them know you’re thinking of them. Out of the blue box- this is a really neat idea. Give someone a “box out of the blue to let you know we’re thinking about you” or “a box out of the blue to let you know we love you”. The idea here is everything in the box has to be blue- could be blue packaged gum, blue jello, blue…
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How Are You Doing?
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I Know How You Feel…
I know how you feel… Let’s erase those words from our go to answers for someone dealing with grief. While it’s our natural answer to show compassion, most of the time, we really don’t know how someone feels. Don’t tell your own story in a way that you try to justify why you know how someone feels. Each of us were uniquely made which means we all experience different emotions and feelings. Along with this, each loss is different because of a 1001 circumstances. And, at the end of the day, we all handle loss differently. Losing a sibling vs. losing a parent, vs. losing a grandparent all “feel” different and…
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