How to support a grieving friend

Life Kit

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

When a friend's loved one has died, what do you do? Send flowers? Condolences? Distract them? It can be hard to know how to support a grieving friend. You want to be there for them, but you also know there's not much you can do to heal their pain. This episode, reporter Julia Furlan talks to grief experts about the most effective ways to show up for someone. And she shares insights from the times she's supported her own friends through their loss.

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0:00.0	Breakup stories are going super viral online.
0:04.2	Normalize posting why you broke up on the internet.
0:06.5	I cannot believe I'm about to tell this breakup story and expose myself like this.
0:11.0	On It's Been a Minute, we're asking the big questions about dating.
0:14.6	Like, what's the line between a juicy story and an invasion of privacy?
0:19.3	To find out, listen now to the It's Been a Minute podcast from NPR.
0:26.0	You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.
0:31.8	Hey, everybody, it's Mariel.
0:34.5	We're starting this episode in the top drawer of a dresser in reporter Julia Furlan's
0:39.4	living room.
0:43.3	In that drawer is a small decorative bag filled with a few little things.
0:48.6	Okay, here it is.
0:51.1	I can't believe I found it.
0:53.8	There's a pair of avocado socks.
0:56.2	They're purple with little avocado.
0:57.7	Fortune Tiller fish.
0:59.2	It's a miracle fish.
1:00.4	Night Garden Mix, Hudson Valley Seed Company.
1:03.9	Deep cleansing pink clay mud mask.
1:07.9	Doesn't say when it expired.
1:09.4	That says, You're my queen featuring the queen of England in a
1:17.4	flower crown. I bought this one. The Queen of England had not died. It's a care package that Julia
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