End-of-Life University Ep. 540 Helpful Things to Say to Someone Grieving with Shelby Forsythia
Learn how to support a grieving person by choosing the best words to say that will actually make a difference.
My guest Shelby Forsythia is a grief coach, author, podcast host, and the founder of Life After Loss Academy, an online course and community for grievers. She is the author of Your Grief Your Way, Permission to Grieve, and her latest book Of Course I’m Here Right Now: Three Actually Helpful Things to Say to Someone Grieving. Her work has been featured in Huffington Post, Bustle, and The Oprah Magazine. Learn more at her website:
This episode includes:
- How Shelby became a “student of grief” who views loss as a perpetual teacher
- Three common internal narratives that grieving people face
- Three simple but transformative phrases to use when supporting someone
- Why words are the most accessible tool for support of someone grieving
- The need for grief literacy to prevent the secondary loss of friendships during times of grief
- The “three Ds“ of grief
- What is the “second wave of grief”
- The lack of grief literacy on social media
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Get Wild and Holy on Amazon or Bookshop
- A Year of Reading Dangerously reading group
- Of Course I’m Here Right Now Book Club with Shelby Forsythia
- Shelby’s Supporting Someone Mini-series
- Latest post on Substack: The Minimalist Approach to the End of Life
- What Really Matters Podcast
- View my Patreon tier for Soul Supporters and receive extra reflections as a special bonus
- NEW Gift Guides for Caregivers, People Receiving Care, and People Who are Grieving
- Get my two newest books!! Stories from the Dark Night and The Tao of Death
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- Conversations on Death with ChatGPT – Audiobook here; Print Book here
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