Why People Say the Wrong Things (And How to Handle It Without Losing Yourself

About this episode

John Morrow discusses the impact of words during times of grief and how to navigate conversations around loss.

I only realized how disruptive words can be in our times of grief after I had my devastating grief experience in June 2019. It's not that I had never experienced grief, but that I had never know utter loss and brutal anguish to this degree. People, well-meaning people, would try their best to console me, but most of the time, they didn't understand nor were they comfortable with knowing how to express themselves. I'm now realize that I was the same way until I finally walked (or crawled) in t...

People in this episode

Host: John Morrow

Topics covered

• grief
• communication
• emotional support
• loss
• self-awareness

Keywords

• grief
• words
• emotional support
• loss
• communication

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