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Psychologists have long understood that personal, emotion-focused writing can help people recognize and come to terms with their feelings. Since the 1980s, studies have found that “the writing cure,” which normally involves writing about…
There is no right thing to say to someone who is grieving. “I learned that no matter what someone says, it is the wrong thing.” My wise friend Laura told me this shortly after her lover, then her mother, died last year.