↴ Here is a quick kit to get you started, complete with posts you can reshare on your socials to communicate your support towards a loved one or even raise awareness in your community and change the way we relate to those grieving!
Cause we can and need to do better than to look away speechlessly.
We can express care. We can work on becoming more understanding, patient humans with a presence of ‘spirit’ and mind. And we can remember: “The two things we want to know when we’re in pain are that we’re not crazy to feel the way we do and that we have support.” 🏔️ (Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant, in: Option B — Facing adversity, building resilience & finding joy) Think about what you’re willing to give and then go out and give it.
Echoing this louder for the people in the back. | Link to post
Source: @charliemackesy, Instagram
<aside> 💡 Friends & family play a key role in helping a griever restore a new life — a life they didn’t imagine they would have but in in which they’re now out in the world, learning how to carry their lost loved one inside, making new memories, testing themselves in new experiences and carrying on (paraphrased from the author): “Learning improves our ability to adapt. The great thing about learning is that it is a capacity, and we can increase our capacity . . . As close friends and family, we can give people who are grieving the opportunity, space, kindness, and encouragement they need to practice new ways of living and realize new insights.”(Mary-Frances O’Connor, in: The Grieving Brain)
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We will be fragile, battered, ill — maybe not now, certainly not in the same way, but we will be. A lot of blind privilege festers in forgetting how none of us are ‘special‘ in the face of life.