Helpful Things to Say to Someone Grieving with Shelby Forsythia

My guest Shelby Forsythia is a grief coach, author, podcast host, and the founder of Life After Loss Academy, an online course and community for grievers. She is the author of Your Grief Your Way, Permission to Grieve, and her latest book Of Course I'm Here Right Now: Three Actually Helpful Things to Say to Someone Grieving. Her work has been featured in Huffington Post, Bustle, and The Oprah Magazine. Learn more at her website: shelbyforsythia.com This episode includes: -How Shelby became a "student of grief" who views loss as a perpetual teacher -Three common internal narratives that grieving people face -Three simple but transformative phrases to use when supporting someone -Why words are the most accessible tool for support of someone grieving -The need for grief literacy to prevent the secondary loss of friendships during times of grief -The "three Ds" of grief -What is the "second wave of grief" -The lack of grief literacy on social media 🍃 Subscribe to my email list: http://eepurl.com/ExfLL 🍂 Support your local bookstore by buying my books on Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/books-by-k... and Indiebound: 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying : https://www.indiebound.org/book/97817... The Journey from Ego to Soul: https://www.indiebound.org/book/97809... 🍃 Subscribe to this podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7bdr4od... iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-en... Stitcher Radio: https://www.stitcher.com/show/endofli... 🍂 Check out the Series I’ve recorded in the past: https://eolupodcast.com/series/ 🍃 Join the team at my Patreon page   / eolu   and get access to the EOLU mug: “Mind if we talk about death?” (only Patrons can purchase it). PLUS get our new bonuses: the monthly EOL News Update, movie reviews from 2 Doctors and a Movie, and automatic access to A Year of Reading Dangerously! 🍂 Intro Music Credit: "Bright Wish" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...