Do You Need to Experience Grief to Help the Grieving?

I believe that in order to work effectively with people who are grieving, you do need to have experienced grief…but you also need to have completed the grieving process.

...My own experience may have ignited my passion but that’s not what taught me about grief. It was sitting around that table in Somerville Massachusetts with the folks who came to every meeting from the beginning to the end of their grief, that I learned the many faces of grief and what it really takes to heal.

Those folks inspire me to this day. Their stories and those of the hundreds of hospice families that followed, are reflected in the pages of How to Survive Your Grief. They are the real experts and I thank them so much for allowing me to walk with them for that part of their journey.

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