Holley Gerth: What Can You Do When Someone You Love Is Grieving?

When we refuse to embrace that we each must do our own grieving, we end up desperately trying to make each other feel better. We start spouting off spiritual cliches, becoming rescuers in unhealthy ways, or carrying around the weight of the world until it almost snaps our souls in half. One of the toughest parts of being human is coming to understand we can’t protect each other from pain all the time. But this doesn’t mean we can’t do anything at all.
 
 We can still show up and be present in the pain. We can say, “I see you. I hear you. I know this is hard.”

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