How to Listen to Your Grieving Friend in a Helpful Way

6 Things to keep in mind. Hint: It’s not about you

Jean Anne Feldeisen
5 min readFeb 26, 2020

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I went once to a support group for grieving family members. My brother had died recently. I went because I was kind of lost and thought support might be a good thing. People said it would be helpful. But it was not.

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Jean Anne Feldeisen

I've got my fingers in way too many pots. Cook, writer, poet, reader, musician, therapist, dreamer, a transplant from New Jersey suburbs to a farm in Maine.