Category: helpful

• September 13, 2022

  Helpful

  I’m working on a research project, trying to better understand how to be helpful in the first minutes and hours after the death of a loved one. Many of us are interested in that question. This internal struggle with best or right or effective can be paralyzing. We get trapped by expectation anxiety, by fear…
• September 9, 2022

  “Tell me about your mom.”

  I’m asking people what’s been helpful after they’ve lost a loved one. (The survey is still open.) But I realized that I can be helpful by sharing what I learn even as I’m gathering responses. One of the research questions is, “What do you wish someone had said?” And one of the themes I’m seeing…