Category: Grief

Let Friends Be Your Lifeline

11/8/2025

The right people for grievers include those who listen compassionately and without judgment and who respond with these kinds of empathy statements:

- This must be very difficult for you.
- This has got to be hard to accept.
- What can I do? How can I help?
- I'm so sorry.
- Tell me more.
- It's okay to cry.
- Call me whenever you want to talk.
- You are in my thoughts and prayers.

Compassionate listeners do more listening than speaking. They never make you feel as though you have been judged or misunderstood. You know that they know your pain or, at the very least, are trying hard to understand and be supportive. Blanket yourself with these kinds of people.
-Victor M Parachin, Healing Grief

The Choice is Ours

9/30/2025

Sooner or later each one of us will lose, to death, someone we love, value, and hold dear. That loss will plunge us into mourning. While the pain of bereavement is as intense as any pein we will ever experience, we do have a choice in how to respond to the loss. We can experience a good mourning or we can experience a bad mourning. . . . The vast majority of grievers experience a good mourning. They remember forever the one who has died, but come to terms with the loss and find new ways of living without the loved one. . . . They find themselves enlarged in heart, spirit and mind.
-Victor M Parachin, Healing Grief

Let Friends Be Your Lifeline

The Choice is Ours

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