Thoughts on the #grief of other people:

It can be hard to watch from the outside, trying to #understand or #process the grief of someone close to us. Knowing what to say or do to #help them, or at least not make things worse, is tough because not everyone grieves in the same way.

In the last ten years, I’ve experienced quite a bit of grief, both first and second hand, and it hasn’t made understanding grief any easier. In fact, it has made me realise that grief is incredibly #diverse, as diverse as the people experiencing it, and they all need or want different things.

And it doesn’t matter whether their grief is over the #death of a person or an animal, the #breakdown or a #relationship, the loss of a #job or a physical object like a #home or #SentimentalItem. Every episode of grief needs to be #acknowledged and #supported.

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