What Not to Say to Someone Who is Grieving

Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven

Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Have you struggled with how to support someone who is grieving? We can’t tell you how many times we’ve been in incredibly awkward situations or said the wrong thing in an effort to be helpful. Today we’re talking about grief and loss with Rachel Wilkerson Miller, the author of The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People.

In This Episode We’ll Cover:

How to recognize what grief looks like for you
Grief of your past SELF being a thing
Ways to identify someone’s needs during grieving
How to be a good friend to someone who is grieving + MORE!

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm Wendy.
0:04.1	And I'm Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast.
0:07.0	Your online resource for inclusive and accessible wellness.
0:21.2	We are super excited to have a repeat guest.
0:24.5	Her name is Rachel Wilkerson Miller.
0:27.5	You may have recognized her because she has a very popular book out.
0:31.1	Check she has two books out, but one that like all my friends were sending me on Instagram.
0:35.0	It's called The Art of Showing Up, How to Be There For Yourself, and Your People.
0:39.2	We had her on before to talk about her dot journaling book, which I also have in love.
0:44.8	And Rachel is a senior editor of Vox and she has also worked at places like
0:49.1	Bice and Buzzfeed.
0:50.4	And today we're going to chat about how to support a friend who is grieving.
0:55.6	Yeah, we're going to be talking about grief and what it is.
0:59.3	Also, different ways that people grieve.
1:02.7	Because it's usually associated with death, but there are so many different types of grief.
1:07.2	So we're going to be getting into that.
1:09.2	Also, how we can be there for the people who we love, who are grieving.
1:13.3	And what I found most useful about this episode was things not to say to someone who's grieving.
1:19.4	Because I think, although, well, intention, sometimes we say things that are not very helpful,
1:23.8	it could be hurtful to the people that we love while they're grieving.
1:26.9	So we go into that as well.
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