What to do when we don't have the right words
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We do not always have the right words when our friends or family experience suffering. We might not always be in the same place that they are. Our emotions might be taking us in the opposite direction even.
That's ok. We are ok. We do not have to react the same way. They do not have to react the same way we do.
We may not have the right words, and we can learn to practice simply listening, acknowledging their thoughts and feelings and demonstrating this by repeating back to them some of their words, acknowledging by showing them that we heard them.
In addition, I have found it helpful when I experience grief or when I witness someone else suffering, growing or healing through the grief process, to revisit what the cycle of grief might look like. https://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/
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