How to Comfort a Grieving Friend

After my husband died, I learned there is no one-size-fits-all approach

Heather McLeod
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readNov 17, 2019

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Photo: Mike Sharp on Unsplash

SSometimes “I’m sorry for your loss” doesn’t cut it. A friend’s father died a year ago. He told me about it over lunch at the pub, and I reached for a response, some safe sentence to tell him I cared.

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Heather McLeod
Human Parts

Writing about losing my young husband to cancer, grief, widowhood & this new, Plan B life. www.heathermcleod.ca https://www.buymeacoffee.com/heathermcleod