Dealing with Grief While Dealing with Work

The Anxious Achiever

Morra Aarons-Mele

Business, Careers, Management, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Grief is something we’ll all experience in our adult lives, and we all experience it differently. But it’s not something the modern workplace is really built to deal with well. How do we move beyond our current system -- which often involves clear cut bereavement days but not much else? Rebecca Soffer is the author of The Modern Loss Handbook: An Interactive Guide to Moving Through Grief and Building Your Resilience. She talks about how to use storytelling and helpful conversations as a way for workers, colleagues, and managers to manage through loss and the feeling of grief and build healthier organizations.

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0:00.0	LinkedIn Presents.
0:04.6	I was working for the Colbert Report, which is daily television or was daily television
0:09.7	when it was on the air. I was an original staff member there. And I was highly ambitious.
0:15.7	I mean, I got in on the ground floor. I was one of the original people there. I was, you know,
0:20.2	it was just the most
0:20.9	amazing, exciting time to be part of something like that. It was incredible. And then my mom died.
0:28.6	And one minute she was alive and she was dead. And I kind of looked at my job as,
0:36.2	why is any of this? Like, it just didn't feel so important to me.
0:45.2	I'm Maura Aronsmeli, and this is the anxious achiever. We look at stories from business
0:50.5	leaders who've dealt with anxiety, depression, or other mental health challenges,
0:55.2	how they fell down, how they pick themselves up, and how they hope work will change in the future.
1:08.8	Grief and loss.
1:15.4	Happens to most of us, but there's no employee handbook about how to handle dealing with them,
1:17.8	especially while you're managing a big career.
1:25.6	You will bring your grief to work long after that last casserole is eaten, and your bereavement leave is over,
1:27.5	says my guest, Rebecca Soffer.
1:32.0	And so we need to find ways to take care of ourselves and manage through.
1:37.4	She has advice from managing triggering sneak attacks at work to recasting a performance review schedule when you've been dealing with loss for months and maybe not worked at your
1:41.3	fullest. Rebecca will even help guide us through the awkwardness
1:44.5	we might feel when working with people who are living with loss, when we don't know what to do
1:49.4	or say or how to show support without saying the wrong thing. And let's face it, workers and
1:56.1	companies need help with this. And talking about it has to be part of our modern workplace vernacular.
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