Hey there, I'm Marie Forlejo and for the last 20 years I've helped millions of people

transform their businesses and lives.

If you're ready to make the difference you were born to make,

get ready because this is the Marie Forelio Podcast.

So this is an episode that I've wanted to do for so long.

It's something that I've personally struggled with and I have a

feeling some of you may struggle with it too. So here's what we're talking about.

What exactly should you say and not say when someone you know is suffering from a loss or an illness or

God forbid something devastating happens.

In other words, how can you truly comfort and support someone in a way that is genuine

and that's not trite or worse unknowingly offensive?

Here's the thing.

These days, we're all communicating so often via text and email and social media anytime

there's news.

So it can get easy to rely on the sad emoji from Facebook or the hug symbol, right?

Now I wanted to do this episode because I feel like all of us,

we all have so much more love and compassion

in our hearts than often we're able to express

simply because we don't know what to say or worse

we're totally afraid of saying the wrong thing so we say nothing which isn't

good so while the following list isn't comprehensive,

I really believe it's going to get us started.

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