In this minisode, we talk about the pressure that we feel as grievers to have grief all figured out. People look to us to help them understand grief in general, and, specifically, we have this responsibility to help others understand our complex feelings surrounding our own grief. This is so much, and we don't always know the answers because we're still struggling to figure it out for ourselves!

We still struggle to place our emotions and express them correctly. We struggle to know what we need sometimes, and how to communicate something we don't even know ourselves. When another loss occurs, we will probably struggle to find the right words to say to another griever even when deep down we know the ones we would want to hear. We know first hand that the best condolences are action-based, and not words. Just by you having “survived” grief, you are a comfort to someone.

Just because we know grief DOES NOT make us experts!