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Those first days were shock. And to be totally blunt about it, a lot of screaming.

The reality of what happened honestly took years to unfold.

Piece by piece by piece.

Two and three years later, I would go to call him,

or I would see something I thought was really cool that he would like and I would go to text him.

It's like part of your brain doesn't get the memo that your person died.

Welcome to how to. I'm Charles Duhigg.

Right now is a really hard time.

And if you're anything like me, you have friends or family members who are struggling with loss.

Or maybe you're mourning someone yourself.

How we process that grief and how we console others, those are really hard questions. Even in the best of times, it's sometimes

not clear how to help other people, which is at the core of a question we got a few months ago

from Anne in Arizona. Well, I reached out because a few weeks ago, one of my brother-in-law's died, I immediately

talked to my dad about it, and my sister and brother-in-law live out of state. And my dad was

kind of telling me, you know, you should give her space,

don't contact her right away. And in the past, when I've been around people who have lost

family members, I've kind of felt like a deer in headlights. And I usually don't say much.

But I know when I was grieving last year, when people did that to me,

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