When someone you love is grieving, you want to help. So you say, “Let me know if you need anything.” And then you wait. And they never ask. And slowly, without meaning to, you disappear. It’s not that you stopped caring. It’s that you didn’t know what to do — so you did nothing. […]

A man in my community shared something with me recently about numbing grief. After his wife died, he didn’t fall apart in the way people expected. Instead, he kept moving. He filled every space. Work. Projects. The gym at 5am. Podcasts during every drive. TV playing until he fell asleep. Because of that, there was […]
