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Who Suffered Most?

By Joyce Wadler — 2013

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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The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War

One night in 1967, twenty-six-year-old John Donohue—known as Chick—was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar. The friends gathered there had lost loved ones in Vietnam. Now they watched as antiwar protesters turned on the troops themselves.

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Loving Your Friend Through Cancer: Moving Beyond “I’m Sorry” to Meaningful Support

“It’s cancer.” When you hear the two words you dread most from someone you care about, you know at once that your friend’s life has been turned upside down. Whether she’s a good friend, a best friend, or just an acquaintance, you want to be supportive.

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What Is Gaslighting? How to Avoid Mental Manipulation and Emotional Abuse with Terri Cole

What Is Gaslighting? How to Avoid Mental Manipulation and Emotional Abuse - Terri Cole If this video describes your situation, please don’t give up. The first step is to understand that it’s happening.

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Self-Care for Grief: 100 Practices for Healing During Times of Loss

When faced with loss or trauma, the grief can oftentimes feel overwhelming. It can feel difficult, if not impossible, to focus your attention elsewhere. And yet, during hard times is the perfect time to look inwards for support and practice self-care.

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How ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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How to Comfort Someone Who Has Lost a Loved One

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There Is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love

The creator of the viral hit “Empathy Cards” teams up with a compassion expert to produce a visually stunning and groundbreaking illustrated guide to help you increase your emotional intelligence and learn how to offer comfort and support when someone you know is in pain.

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How Do You Help a Grieving Friend?

It's so hard to know what to do when your friends are hurting. The thing is, you can't cheer someone up by telling them to look on the bright side, or by giving them advice. It just doesn't work.

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It’s OK that You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture that Doesn’t Understand

In It’s OK that You’re Not OK, Megan Devine offers a profound new approach to both the experience of grief and the way we try to help others who have endured tragedy.

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