Understanding and Managing Grief, November 19 - November 25, 2023

Best selections from Grief Healing's X feed this week:

Knowing how to respond sensitively to someone else’s bad news is the last missing piece in the jigsaw of adulthood, the life skill most of us only realise, to our dismay, we are lacking in that particular sniper’s alley of the late 40s and 50s, when everyone is seemingly running from something and it suddenly feels very important indeed to be a good friend. These are the years of losing elderly parents, but also of early heart attacks, cancer diagnoses, of friends blindsided by now-the-kids-are-grown-and-gone divorces. Lately I’ve found myself struggling too often for the right words. There’s no right thing to say to people who are grieving, but the worst thing is fearing to speak at all « The Guardian

Coping with Pet Loss, April 3 - April 9

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

• When pets outlive owners, 'retirement homes' offer refuge, http://bit.ly/gS5bIG

• Tears of men from a veterinarian's perspective, http://goo.gl/GdvGD by @DrMartyBecker

• Using Photography and Creativity to Ease Grief, http://bit.ly/fOHY8f by @sandyrakowitz via @NEPetHospice

• Elegant elegies: Grieving pet owners find solace in online tributes, http://bit.ly/gC6lFH