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Here’s What Losing My Child Taught Me About Unbearable Pain

By Elaine Pagels — 2018

Elaine Pagels and her husband, Heinz, are dealing with unimaginable loss: the death of their young son Mark, due to a diagnosis an incredibly rare, and fatal disease: pulmonary hypertension.

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Why Entrepreneurs Need To Talk About Their Mental Health

72% of entrepreneurs are directly or indirectly affected by mental health issues compared to just 48% of non entrepreneurs.

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Dan Murray-Serter
2020
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How to Help a Grieving Friend at the Holidays: An Illustrated Guide

Grief - from any kind of loss - makes the holiday season harder. Knowing how to help can make things better, even when they can’t be made right. Grief therapist and author Megan Devine and illustrator Brittany Bilyeu teamed up to help you learn how to support the people you love.

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Megan Devine
2017
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Helping Someone Who’s Grieving

Is someone you know grieving a loss? Learn what to say and how to comfort someone through bereavement, grief, and loss.

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Melinda Smith, M.A., Lawrence Robinson, Jeanne Segal, Ph.D.
2020
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What to Say to Someone Who Is Dying

The truth is that many of us just don’t know the right words to comfort someone who is dying.

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Candace Rotolo
2020
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Dealing with Grief: Five Things Not to Say and Five Things to Say in a Trauma Involving Children

Religion can help many of us move past grief and make sense of tragedy. But according to Reverend Emily C. Heath, religion can often come off as trite rather than insightful.

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Rev. Emily C. Heath
2013
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What to Say (And Not to Say) to a Grieving Person

Grief expert Gloria Horsley put together this excellent list of what to say (and not to say) to a grieving person.

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Gloria Horsley
2013
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Who Suffered Most?

One of the pitfalls some fall into when talking to a person in mourning is to inadvertently compete about who is going through the more difficult time.

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Joyce Wadler
2013
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The Right Words to Say When Someone Has Lost a Child

If you have never experienced the death of a child, it's extremely difficult to know what to say to someone facing this type of loss. The death of a child is unnatural, unfair, and tragic.

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Angela Morrow
2020
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What I Wish Other People Understood About Losing a Child

Four and a half years after the death of my oldest son, I finally went to a grief support group for parents who have lost children.

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Paula Stephens
2020
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