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You're listening to 3 in 30 episode 13. How to support those who are grieving.

Welcome to 3 in 30, a podcast for moms who want to create more meaning in motherhood.

Each 30 minute episode will feature 3 doable takeaways for you to try at home with your family this week.

I'm your host Rachel Nielsen. Thank you so much for being here.

If you close your eyes right now, I bet you can picture several of your friends, family, and loved ones who have lost their own precious loved ones.

The circumstances surrounding these losses are often varied but always heartbreaking.

And one thing is universal. That's the grief. Because when you love big, you grieve big. And there's just no way around that.

Seeing your friends and family grieving can be its own kind of agony as you ache to do something, anything to show them your love and to help ease their burden a little bit.

But what? What can you possibly do or say?

I get asked this question a lot because as I shared in last week's episode, my mother passed away from breast cancer when I was 19.

So my friends often turn to me when someone that they love loses a loved one to ask what they should do. How could they help?

And that's why a post on Instagram caught my eye last month.

I've been following the account of Rachel Gainer for several months because she's an advocate for body positivity and she's a mindset coach who, like me, has been through her own journey with perfectionism and eating disorders.

Also, like me, she's an adoptive mom. She has adopted five beautiful children. And so I just feel connected to her and I love her genuine and heartfelt content that she shares on her feed.

And one day in December, she posted on Instagram about how the holidays can be a tender time for people who have lost a child.

She shared a little bit about her angel baby, Daphne, who passed away when she was just two months old.

Rachel then went on to share three practical ways that you can support someone who's grieving. And every single one of her ideas was just spot on with the experiences that I've had with loss in my life.

So I reached out with to her and asked if she wanted to record a podcast on this topic. And I'm thrilled that she agreed to do so.

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