Finding Words in Hard Times - with Jon Swanson

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Welcome! Or welcome back. This weekly newsletter is intended to give you stories and tools to help you be more comfortable as you help others in hard…
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Welcome or welcome back! Time changes are disruptive. In the US, this week has been a week of recovering from time change. We need relief. In my…
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And better structured emails, more on the friends survey, and online grief packets.
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Welcome. Or welcome back. +++ “To be more persuasive, change verbs to nouns.” It’s not often that I think about grammar. But Daniel Pink and Jonah…
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February 2023

Welcome or welcome back! (I hope you got to watch my video this week. It made me feel a little more connected.) I’m bringing a potluck of resources…
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004 - A short video to let you hear my voice. Watch now (4 min) | That sounds funny, right? That I want you to hear my voice? But tone of voice and ways of talking are so much part of how we provide…
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Welcome! (Or welcome back) You and I are here because we want to help people in times of loss. Sometimes those people are in our mirror. Sometimes they…
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Welcome back! From what I know about the subscribers to this newsletter, you are the kind of person who asks, “What’s one way I can be helpful when…
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As I started researching being helpful in loss in mid-2022, learned about a new-to-me model of bereavement coping called the DPM, Dual Process Model. It…
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If you are part of this readership, you are the kind of person who asks, “What’s one way I can be helpful when someone’s lost a loved one?” It’s often…
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January 2023

Some people write about using Sunday afternoon or evening as an opportunity to plan for the week. You review the calendar, you check your to-do lists…
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“Where are you?” he asked. “In the kitchen,” she said. “What are you doing?” “Working.” “Are you cold?” “No.” It's a pretty ordinary conversation…
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