Grief: What Do You Say to Someone? With Sandra Maddox
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
When someone close to us is going through the grieving process, we often want to do what we can to make that person's experience a little more bearable. Sometimes we succeed, but sometimes we end up making it worse. In the third episode of a series on grief, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen are joined by Sandra Maddox, who gives examples from her own tragic experience to help teach the right and wrong things to say to someone in pain.
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| 0:49.4 | Welcome back to day three of grief week. This has been such an emotional week and I'm just so |
| 0:54.0 | grateful to how candid our friend Sandra has been and I just want to say one thing |
| 0:58.8 | you can have a mentor I think I've said this before but you can have a mentor |
| 1:02.0 | that doesn't know they're your mentor you can follow people and model your lives after people that don't even know that you're following them and that's sort of what I did with you |
| 1:10.8 | Because this your story has always been one of my greatest fears with you |
| 1:15.0 | about because your story has always been one of my greatest fears and so I never wanted to say anything to you about that |
| 1:18.0 | because I always thought what do you say to someone which is what we're going to talk about today |
| 1:22.0 | what to say and what not to say to someone, which is what we're going to talk about today, what to say and what not to say to someone grieving. |
| 1:25.0 | I never really want to say anything, but I always looked up to you. |
| 1:28.0 | I thought, wow, she's got so much grace and so much strength, and she's just got such an amazing character and if that happened to me |
| 1:36.4 | I don't think I would be that way and so you find people that have the strengths you want. |
| 1:43.4 | So I love that. |
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