GRIEF AT CHRISTMAS (PART 1)

WHEN OTHERS GRIEVE AT CHRISTMAS

Part 1:   If you know someone who has experienced loss this year:

1. Don’t avoid; reach out.
2. It’s not about what you say but that you are present
3. Name a specific way/action you can reach out     [e.g. dinner, coffee, write a note]
4. Don’t use spiritual platitudes [this bypasses their pain of loss]
5. Don’t tell them you know how they feel. You don’t.
6. Can you change up your normal traditions or way of doing things to  include someone who has experienced loss? [Christmas dinner, etc.]
7. Ask how they are doing.  [Christmas felt like a “glass globe” experience]